Search: id:A003411 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A003411 M0561 %S A003411 1,2,3,4,6,8,11,15,21,29,40,55,76,105,145,200,276,381,526,726,1002, %T A003411 1383,1909,2635,3637,5020,6929,9564,13201,18221,25150,34714,47915,66136 %N A003411 Losing initial positions in game: two players alternate in removing > = 1 stones; last player wins; first player may not remove all stones; each move <= 3 times previous move. %D A003411 N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence). %H A003411 S. Plouffe, Approximations de S\'{e}ries G\'{e}n\'{e}ratrices et Quelques Conjectures, Dissertation, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992. %H A003411 S. Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions and Conjectures, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992. %F A003411 a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-4), n >= 5; G.f.: (1+x+x^2+x^3+x^4)/(1-x-x^4). %p A003411 A003411:=-(1+z+z**2+z**3+z**4)/(-1+z+z**4); [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.] %Y A003411 Presumably equals A048590(n-3) - 3, n>3. %Y A003411 Sequence in context: A006683 A014213 A064323 this_sequence A034081 A064660 A066806 %Y A003411 Adjacent sequences: A003408 A003409 A003410 this_sequence A003412 A003413 A003414 %K A003411 nonn,easy %O A003411 0,2 %A A003411 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), R. K. Guy, Rodney W. Topor (rwt(AT)cit.gu.edu.au). Search completed in 0.001 seconds