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A164172
Number of binary strings of length n with equal numbers of 0010 and 1100 substrings
1
1, 2, 4, 8, 14, 24, 42, 75, 138, 261, 500, 960, 1838, 3505, 6669, 12698, 24254, 46533, 89679, 173472, 336440, 653616, 1271244, 2474786, 4822414, 9407279, 18372967, 35926706, 70331337, 137822864, 270318832, 530594784, 1042182332, 2048302421
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: A164394 A164171 A164159 * A164164 A164158 A164170
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
R. H. Hardin, Aug 11 2009
STATUS
approved