Search: id:A006904 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A006904 M3254 %S A006904 1,1,4,5,14,23,52,97,202,395,800,1589,3190,6367,12748,25481,50978,101939, 203896, %T A006904 407773,815566,1631111,3262244,6524465,13048954,26097883,52195792,104391557 %N A006904 a(n) = a(n-1)+2.a(n-2)+(-1)^n. %D A006904 R. L. Graham, D. E. Knuth and O. Patashnik, Concrete Mathematics. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1990, p. 327. %D A006904 N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence). %F A006904 G.f.: (1+x+x^2 ) / (1-2x)(1+x)^2. %F A006904 With offset 0: a(n) = 1/9*(7*2^n+(-1)^n*(3*n+2)); if b(1)=1, b(k) = 2*b(k-1)+(-1)^k*k, then for n>4, a(n)=b(n-4). - Benoit Cloitre (benoit7848c(AT)orange.fr), Oct 28 2002 %Y A006904 Sequence in context: A041089 A042321 A050164 this_sequence A007084 A093862 A041375 %Y A006904 Adjacent sequences: A006901 A006902 A006903 this_sequence A006905 A006906 A006907 %K A006904 nonn,easy %O A006904 4,3 %A A006904 Simon Plouffe, N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com). Search completed in 0.001 seconds