Search: id:A114950 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A114950 %S A114950 1,1,2,83525,48670514501156640914, %T A114950 5611303368570568119463158581109807779153712597124269146443734128560476495542441 %N A114950 A quartic quadratic recurrence. %C A114950 a(6) has 315 digits. This sequence is related to: A112969 "quartic Fibonacci sequence" a(1) = a(2) = 1; for n>2: a(n) = a(n-1)^4 + a(n-2)^4, which is the quartic (or biquadratic) analogue of the Fibonacci sequence similarly to A000283 being the quadratic analogue of the Fibonacci sequence. Primes in this sequence include a(n) for n = 2, 3. Semiprimes in this sequence include a(n) for n = 5. %F A114950 a(0) = a(1) = 1, for n>1 a(n) = a(n-2)^4 + a(n-1)^2. %e A114950 a(2) = a(1)^4 + a(0)^2 = 1^4 + 1^2 = 2. %e A114950 a(3) = a(2)^4 + a(1)^2 = 2^4 + 1^2 = 17. %e A114950 a(4) = a(3)^4 + a(2)^2 = 17^4 + 2^2 = 83525. %e A114950 a(5) = a(4)^4 + a(3)^2 = 83525^4 + 17^2 = 48670514501156640914. %Y A114950 Cf. A000283, A112969, A114793. %Y A114950 Sequence in context: A100266 A071067 A060069 this_sequence A003840 A122540 A167518 %Y A114950 Adjacent sequences: A114947 A114948 A114949 this_sequence A114951 A114952 A114953 %K A114950 easy,nonn %O A114950 0,3 %A A114950 Jonathan Vos Post (jvospost3(AT)gmail.com), Feb 21 2006 Search completed in 0.001 seconds