login
The OEIS is supported by the many generous donors to the OEIS Foundation.

 

Logo
Hints
(Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!)
A158218 169n^2 - 2n. 2

%I #27 Sep 08 2022 08:45:42

%S 167,672,1515,2696,4215,6072,8267,10800,13671,16880,20427,24312,28535,

%T 33096,37995,43232,48807,54720,60971,67560,74487,81752,89355,97296,

%U 105575,114192,123147,132440,142071,152040,162347,172992,183975,195296

%N 169n^2 - 2n.

%C The identity (169*n-1)^2-(169*n^2-2*n)*(13)^2=1 can be written as A158219(n)^2-a(n)*(13)^2=1.

%H Vincenzo Librandi, <a href="/A158218/b158218.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>

%H Vincenzo Librandi, <a href="http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=5785989&amp;tstart=0">X^2-AY^2=1</a>

%H E. J. Barbeau, <a href="http://www.math.toronto.edu/barbeau/home.html">Polynomial Excursions</a>, Chapter 10: <a href="http://www.math.toronto.edu/barbeau/hxpol10.pdf">Diophantine equations</a> (2010), pages 84-85 (row 15 in the first table at p. 85, case d(t) = t*(13^2*t-2)).

%H <a href="/index/Rec#order_03">Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (3,-3,1).

%F a(n) = 3*a(n-1) -3*a(n-2) +a(n-3).

%F G.f.: x*(-167-171*x)/(x-1)^3.

%t LinearRecurrence[{3,-3,1},{167,672,1515},50]

%o (Magma) I:=[167, 672, 1515]; [n le 3 select I[n] else 3*Self(n-1)-3*Self(n-2)+1*Self(n-3): n in [1..50]];

%o (PARI) a(n) = 169*n^2 - 2*n.

%Y Cf. A158219.

%K nonn,easy

%O 1,1

%A _Vincenzo Librandi_, Mar 14 2009

Lookup | Welcome | Wiki | Register | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Style Sheet | Transforms | Superseeker | Recents
The OEIS Community | Maintained by The OEIS Foundation Inc.

License Agreements, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy. .

Last modified April 25 05:49 EDT 2024. Contains 371964 sequences. (Running on oeis4.)