OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
For all n: a(n) == 7 (mod 8).
REFERENCES
Miguel Ángel Pérez García-Ortega, José Manuel Sánchez Muñoz and José Miguel Blanco Casado, El Libro de las Ternas Pitagóricas, Preprint 2024.
LINKS
Andrew Howroyd, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..200
Miguel-Ángel Pérez García-Ortega, El Libro de las Ternas Pitagóricas.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (40,-206,40,-1).
FORMULA
G.f.: (7 - 153*x - 111*x^2 + x^3)/((1 - 34*x + x^2)*(1 - 6*x + x^2)). - Andrew Howroyd, Nov 16 2025
EXAMPLE
MATHEMATICA
s[n_]:=s[n]=Module[{r}, r=((1+Sqrt[2])^(2n+1)-(Sqrt[2]-1)^(2n+1))/2; {2r^2+4r+1}]; sumas={}; Do[semis=Join[sumas, FullSimplify[s[n]]], {n, 0, 17}]; sumas
PROG
(PARI) a(n)=my(t=polcoef((1 + x)/(1 - 6*x + x^2) + O(x*x^n), n)); 2*t^2 + 4*t + 1; \\ Andrew Howroyd, Nov 16 2025
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Miguel-Ángel Pérez García-Ortega, Dec 23 2024
STATUS
approved
