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A164171
Number of binary strings of length n with equal numbers of 0010 and 1011 substrings
1
1, 2, 4, 8, 14, 24, 42, 74, 134, 246, 458, 856, 1608, 3030, 5742, 10936, 20940, 40250, 77618, 150020, 290568, 563812, 1095992, 2133964, 4161236, 8124978, 15882766, 31079356, 60872816, 119328840, 234106580, 459622576, 902996064, 1775186438
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: A164395 A164160 A164394 * A164159 A164172 A164164
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
R. H. Hardin, Aug 11 2009
STATUS
approved