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”).

A162759
a(n) = 16*a(n-1)-61*a(n-2) for n > 1; a(0) = 1, a(1) = 9.
1
1, 9, 83, 779, 7401, 70897, 682891, 6601539, 63968273, 620798489, 6030711171, 58622670907, 570089353081, 5545446723969, 53951697045563, 524954902566899, 5108224921291041, 49709349684075817, 483747874746459571
OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
Eighth binomial transform of A108411. Binomial transform of A162758.
FORMULA
a(n) = ((3+sqrt(3))*(8+sqrt(3))^n+(3-sqrt(3))*(8-sqrt(3))^n)/6.
G.f.: (1-7*x)/(1-16*x+61*x^2).
MATHEMATICA
LinearRecurrence[{16, -61}, {1, 9}, 30] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jan 18 2014 *)
PROG
(Magma) [ n le 2 select 8*n-7 else 16*Self(n-1)-61*Self(n-2): n in [1..19] ];
CROSSREFS
Cf. A108411 (powers of 3 repeated), A162758.
Sequence in context: A037502 A037679 A015579 * A147960 A155499 A321294
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Klaus Brockhaus, Jul 13 2009
STATUS
approved