Search: id:A038201 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A038201 %S A038201 1,1,1,1,1,2,3,4,5,9,12,14,15,29,41,50,55,105,146,175,190,365,511,616, %T A038201 671,1287,1798,2163,2353,4516,6314,7601,8272,15873,22187,26703,29056, %U A038201 55759,77946,93819,102091,195910,273856,329615,358671,688286,962142 %N A038201 5-wave sequence. %C A038201 a(4n) forms A006358. A second recurrence formula is: a(n)=3a(n-4)+3a(n-8)-4a(n-12)-a(n-16)+a(n-20). %C A038201 Sequence of perfect distributions for a cascade merge with six tapes according to Knuth. - Michael Somos Feb 07 2004 %D A038201 D. E. Knuth, Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 3, Sect. 5.4.3, Eq. (1). %H A038201 F. v. Lamoen, Wave sequences %F A038201 a(n)=a(n-1)+a(n-2) if n=4m+1, a(n)=a(n-1)+a(n-4) if n=4m+2, a(n)=a(n-1)+a(n-6) if n=4m+3 and a(n)=a(n-1)+a(n-8) if n=4m. %F A038201 G.f.: -(1+x+x^2+x^3-2*x^4-x^5+x^7-x^8-x^11+x^12)/(-1+3*x^4+3*x^8-4*x^12-x^16+x^20) %o A038201 (PARI) a(n)=local(m);if(n<=0,n==0,m=(n-1)\4*4;sum(k=2*m-n,m,a(k))) %Y A038201 Cf. A038196, A038197. %Y A038201 Sequence in context: A093305 A065817 A084542 this_sequence A033084 A076134 A101526 %Y A038201 Adjacent sequences: A038198 A038199 A038200 this_sequence A038202 A038203 A038204 %K A038201 easy,nonn %O A038201 0,6 %A A038201 Floor van Lamoen (fvlamoen(AT)hotmail.com) %E A038201 Edited by Floor van Lamoen (fvlamoen(AT)hotmail.com), Feb 05 2002 Search completed in 0.001 seconds