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Search: id:A001659
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| A001659 |
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Expansion of bracket function.
(Formerly M1433 N0567)
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| 1, 1, -1, 2, -5, 13, -33, 80, -184, 402, -840, 1699, -3382, 6750, -13716, 28550, -60587, 129579, -275915, 579828, -1197649, 2431775, -4870105, 9672634, -19173013, 38151533, -76521331, 154941608, -316399235, 649807589, -1337598675
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OFFSET
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1,4
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COMMENT
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Inverse binomial transform of A006218.
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REFERENCES
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S. Plouffe, Approximations de S\'{e}ries G\'{e}n\'{e}ratrices et Quelques Conjectures}, Dissertation, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.
H. W. Gould, Binomial coefficients, the bracket function, and compositions with relatively prime summands, Fib. Quart. 2 (1964), 241-260. Math. Rev. 30 #1090
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LINKS
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S. Plouffe, Approximations de S\'{e}ries G\'{e}n\'{e}ratrices et Quelques Conjectures}, Dissertation, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.
S. Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions and Conjectures, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.
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FORMULA
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G.f.: Sum_{k>0} x^k/((1+x)^k-x^k).
G.f.: Sum_{k>0} tau(k)*x^k/(1+x)^k. - Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)Eunet.yu), Jun 24 2003
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MAPLE
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A001659:=-(-1+5*z-8*z**2+z**3+5*z**4+z**5)/(1-6*z+13*z**2-10*z**3-z**4+z**5); [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]
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PROGRAM
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(PARI) a(n)=sum(j=0, n, (-1)^(n-j)*binomial(n, j)*sum(k=1, j, j\k))
(PARI) a(n)=polcoeff(sum(k=1, n, x^k/((1+x)^k-x^k), x*O(x^n)), n)
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CROSSREFS
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Cf. A000748, A000749, A000750, A006090, A006218.
Equals A038200(n-1) + A038200(n), n>1.
Sequence in context: A110320 A108890 A027929 this_sequence A088921 A005183 A005348
Adjacent sequences: A001656 A001657 A001658 this_sequence A001660 A001661 A001662
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KEYWORD
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sign
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AUTHOR
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njas
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EXTENSIONS
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Edited by Michael Somos, Jun 14 2003
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