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A005230 Stern's sequence: a(1) = 1, a(n+1) is the sum of the m preceding terms, where m*(m-1)/2 < n <= m*(m+1)/2 or equivalently m = ceil((sqrt(8*n+1)-1)/2) = A002024(n).
(Formerly M0785)
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7
1, 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 20, 40, 77, 148, 285, 570, 1120, 2200, 4323, 8498, 16996, 33707, 66844, 132568, 262936, 521549, 1043098, 2077698, 4138400, 8243093, 16419342, 32706116, 65149296, 130298592, 260075635, 519108172, 1036138646, 2068138892, 4128034691 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,3

REFERENCES

Kreweras, G.; Sur quelques problemes relatifs au vote pondere, [ Some problems of weighted voting ] Math. Sci. Humaines No. 84 (1983), 45-63.

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

M. A. Stern, Aufgaben, J. Reine Angew. Math., 18 (1838), 100.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..200

Index entries for sequences related to Stern's sequences

Index entries for "core" sequences

FORMULA

Partial sums give Conway-Guy sequence A005318. Cf. A066777.

2*a(n*(n+1)/2 + 1) = a(n*(n+1)/2 + 2) for n>=1; limit_{n->infty} a(n+1)/a(n) = 2. - Paul D. Hanna (pauldhanna(AT)juno.com), Aug 28 2006

MAPLE

A005230[1] := 1: n := 50: for k from 1 to n-1 do: A005230[k+1] := sum('A005230[j]', 'j'=k+1-(ceil((sqrt(8*k+1)-1)/2))..k): od: [seq(A005230[k], k=1..n)];

PROGRAM

(PARI) a(n)=if(n==1, 1, sum(k=1, ceil((sqrt(8*n-7)-1)/2), a(n-k))) - Paul D. Hanna (pauldhanna(AT)juno.com), Aug 28 2006

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A141435 A096080 A143658 this_sequence A030037 A077078 A077079

Adjacent sequences: A005227 A005228 A005229 this_sequence A005231 A005232 A005233

KEYWORD

core,easy,nonn,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Simon Plouffe (simon.plouffe(AT)gmail.com)

EXTENSIONS

Description corrected by Mario Szegedy Sep 15 1996; and revised with Maple code by UlrSchimke(AT)aol.com, Mar 16, 2002

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