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”).

A273189
a(n) is the third number in a triple consisting of 3 numbers, which when squared are part of a right diagonal of a magic square of squares.
3
51, 401, 2451, 14401, 84051, 490001, 2856051, 16646401, 97022451, 565488401, 3295908051, 19209960001, 111963852051, 652573152401, 3803475062451, 22168277222401, 129206188272051, 753068852410001, 4389206926188051, 25582172704718401, 149103829302122451
OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
The multiplying factor 6 (in the recursion formulas below) appears to come from the ratio of b(1)/b(0) of the sequence. Each of the lines of tables (V vs VII) or (VI vs VIII) in oddwheel.com/ImaginaryB.html generates this factor.
k is obtained from the difference of the offsets of two relate sequences. this one, (II), starting at 51 and a second, (I), at 99 (to be submitted separately). Thus, k =[Ic(n)- IIc(n)]*2. When n=0, Ic(0)=99 and IIc(0)=51 giving the value for k of (99-51)*2=96. Furthermore, k is the same constant number for any value of n.
The differences between number in the sequence are identical in both of the related sequences.
FORMULA
a(0)= 51, a(1)= 401, a(n+1)= a(n)*6 - a(n-1) + k where k=96.
From Colin Barker, May 18 2016: (Start)
a(n) = (-24+25/2*(3-2*sqrt(2))^(1+n)+25/2*(3+2*sqrt(2))^(1+n)).
a(n) = 7*a(n-1)-7*a(n-2)+a(n-3) for n>2.
G.f.: (51+44*x+x^2) / ((1-x)*(1-6*x+x^2)).
(End)
EXAMPLE
a(2)= 401*6 - (51 - 96)= 2451;
a(3)= 2451*6 - (401 - 96)= 14401;
a(4)= 14401*6 - (2451 - 96)= 84051.
MATHEMATICA
CoefficientList[Series[(51 + 44 x + x^2)/((1 - x) (1 - 6 x + x^2)), {x, 0, 20}], x] (* Michael De Vlieger, May 18 2016 *)
LinearRecurrence[{7, -7, 1}, {51, 401, 2451}, 30] (* Harvey P. Dale, Feb 21 2020 *)
PROG
(PARI) Vec((51+44*x+x^2)/((1-x)*(1-6*x+x^2)) + O(x^50)) \\ Colin Barker, May 18 2016
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Eddie Gutierrez, May 17 2016
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Colin Barker, May 18 2016
STATUS
approved