login

Year-end appeal: Please make a donation to the OEIS Foundation to support ongoing development and maintenance of the OEIS. We are now in our 61st year, we have over 378,000 sequences, and we’ve reached 11,000 citations (which often say “discovered thanks to the OEIS”).

A132344
a(n) = n*2^(floor(n/2)).
1
0, 1, 4, 6, 16, 20, 48, 56, 128, 144, 320, 352, 768, 832, 1792, 1920, 4096, 4352, 9216, 9728, 20480, 21504, 45056, 47104, 98304, 102400, 212992, 221184, 458752, 475136, 983040, 1015808, 2097152, 2162688, 4456448, 4587520, 9437184, 9699328, 19922944, 20447232, 41943040, 42991616
OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
This sequence is related to a greedily and recursively defined sequence (see links). - Sela Fried, Aug 30 2024
LINKS
Sela Fried, On integer sequence A128135, 2024.
Sela Fried, Proofs of some Conjectures from the OEIS, arXiv:2410.07237 [math.NT], 2024. See p. 11.
Simon Plouffe, Illustration. [broken link]
FORMULA
G.f.: x*(1 + 4*x + 2*x^2)/(1 - 2*x^2)^2. - Ilya Gutkovskiy, Feb 24 2017
a(n) = n*A016116(n). - Michel Marcus, Feb 17 2018
Sum{n>=1} 1/a(n) = sqrt(2)*arcsinh(1) + log(2)/2. - Amiram Eldar, Sep 15 2024
MAPLE
seq(n*2^(floor(n/2)), n=1..120);
MATHEMATICA
Table[n*2^Floor[n/2], {n, 0, 100}] (* Wesley Ivan Hurt, Dec 12 2013 *)
LinearRecurrence[{0, 4, 0, -4}, {0, 1, 4, 6}, 50] (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 27 2022 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n) = n*2^(n\2); \\ Michel Marcus, Feb 17 2018
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A304909 A302119 A120542 * A306905 A097970 A044858
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Simon Plouffe, Nov 19 2007
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Michel Marcus, Feb 17 2018
STATUS
approved