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A164138
Number of binary strings of length n with equal numbers of 000 and 010 substrings
1
1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 17, 31, 50, 87, 167, 302, 528, 992, 1907, 3518, 6539, 12645, 24327, 46006, 88361, 172240, 332882, 641385, 1249453, 2441841, 4748632, 9252605, 18128340, 35506424, 69433187, 136116163, 267424477, 525052400, 1030970356, 2027883854
OFFSET
0,2
LINKS
Shalosh B. Ekhad and Doron Zeilberger, Automatic Solution of Richard Stanley's Amer. Math. Monthly Problem #11610 and ANY Problem of That Type, arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.6207, 2011. See subpages for rigorous derivations of g.f., recurrence, asymptotics for this sequence. [From N. J. A. Sloane, Apr 07 2012]
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A342340 A244470 A098787 * A320449 A263434 A192079
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
R. H. Hardin Aug 11 2009
STATUS
approved