OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
Hankel transform of 1,1,4,18,88,.... (see A081671).
LINKS
Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (8,-4).
FORMULA
a(n) = 8*a(n-1) - 4*a(n-2), n > 1; a(0)=1, a(1)=3. [Philippe Deléham, Feb 02 2009]
MAPLE
A[0]:= 1: A[1]:= 3:
for n from 2 to 100 do A[n]:= 8*A[n-1]-4*A[n-2] od:
seq(A[n], n=0..100); # Robert Israel, Aug 10 2014
MATHEMATICA
LinearRecurrence[{8, -4}, {1, 3}, 20] (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 10 2014 *)
CoefficientList[Series[(1 - 5 x)/(1 - 8 x + 4 x^2), {x, 0, 50}], x] (* Vincenzo Librandi, Aug 10 2014 *)
PROG
(PARI) Vec((1-5*x)/(1-8*x+4*x^2)+O(x^50)) \\ Michel Marcus, Aug 10 2014
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
easy,nonn
AUTHOR
Paul Barry, Jan 13 2009
STATUS
approved