0,5

a(n+3) = number of n-bit sequences that avoid 010. Example: For n=4 the 12 sequences are all 4-bit sequences except 0100, 0101, 0010, 1010. - David Callan (callan(AT)stat.wisc.edu), Mar 25 2004

Number of different positive braids with n crossings of 3 strands.

This is a_2(n) in the Doroslovacki reference. Note that there is a typo in the paper in the formula for a_2(n): the upper bound in the inner sum should be "n-i" not "i-1". - Max Alekseyev, Jun 26 2007

a(n)=number of peakless Motzkin paths of length n-1 with no UHH...HD's starting at level > 0 (here n>0 and U=(1,1), H=(1,0), D=(1,-1)). Example: a(5)=7 because from all 8 peakless Motzkin paths of length 5 (see A004148) only UUHDD does not qualify. - Emeric Deutsch (deutsch(AT)duke.poly.edu), Sep 13 2004

Conjecture: a(n+1) + |A078065(n)| = 2*A005314(n+1) Formula generated by floretion: + .5'i - .25'j + .25'k + .5i' + .25j' - .25k' - .5'jj' - .5'kk' + .25'ij' - .25'ik' + .25'ji' + .5'jk' - .25'ki' + .5'kj' + e ("jes", "sig" series). Note: as thousands of integer sequences may be associated with any "typical" floretion, the information in parenthesis plays a vital role in looking it back up. - Creighton Dement (creighton.k.dement(AT)uni-oldenburg.de), Dec 21 2004

Contribution from Gary W. Adamson (qntmpkt(AT)yahoo.com), Apr 27 2009: (Start)

Equals the INVERT transform of (1, 0, 1, 1, 1,...); equivalent to a(n) =

a(n-1) + a(n-3) + a(n-4) + ... (End)

R. Austin and R. K. Guy, Binary sequences without isolated ones, Fib. Quart., 16 (1978), 84-86.

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A. Brousseau, Fibonacci and Related Number Theoretic Tables. Fibonacci Association, San Jose, CA, 1972, p. 112.

S. Burckel, Efficient methods for three strand braids (submitted).

John H. Conway and R. K. Guy, The Book of Numbers, Copernicus Press, p. 205.

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

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..500

P. Chinn and S. Heubach, Integer Sequences Related to Compositions without 2's, J. Integer Seqs., Vol. 6, 2003.

R. Doroslovacki, Binary sequences without 011...110 (k-1 1's) for fixed k, Mat. Vesnik 46 (1994), no. 3-4, 93-98.

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Index entries for sequences related to linear recurrences with constant coefficients

a(n) = 2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3).

G.f.: z(1-z)/(1-2z+z^2-z^3). - Emeric Deutsch (deutsch(AT)duke.poly.edu), Sep 13 2004

23*a_n = 3*P_{2n+1} + 7*P_{2n} - 2*P_{2n-1}, where P_n are the Perrin numbers, A001608. - D. E. Knuth, Dec 09 2008

a(n+1) = Sum(binomial(n-k, 2k), {k=0...n}). - Richard Ollerton (r.ollerton(AT)uws.edu.au), May 12 2004

a(n) = sum_{j<n}[a(j)]-a(n-2) = A005314(n)-A005314(n-1) = A049853(n-1)-a(n-1) = A005314(n)-a(n-2) - Henry.Bottomley (se16(AT)btinternet.com), Feb 21 2001

a(n+2) has g.f. (F_3(-x)+F_2(-x))/(F_4(-x)+F_3(-x)) = 1/(-x+1/(-x+1/(-x+1))) where F_n(x) is the nth Fibonacci polynomial; see A011973. [From Qiaochu Yuan (qchu(AT)mit.edu), Feb 19 2009]

A005251 := proc(n) option remember; if n <= 2 then n elif n = 3 then 4 else 2*A005251(n - 1) - A005251(n - 2) + A005251(n - 3); fi; end;

A005251:=(-1+z)/(-1+2*z-z**2+z**3); [S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

Cf. A004148, A049864, A118891, A005314.

Bisection of Padovan sequence A000931.

Sequence in context: A003293 A094974 A100671 this_sequence A014167 A103197 A000709

Adjacent sequences: A005248 A005249 A005250 this_sequence A005252 A005253 A005254

nonn,nice,easy

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), R. K. Guy