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A002814 a(n) = a(n-1)^3 + 3a(n-1)^2 - 3.
(Formerly M2105 N0833)
+0
2
1, 2, 17, 5777, 192900153617, 7177905237579946589743592924684177, 369822356418414944143680173221426891716916679027557977938929258031490127514207143830378340325399155217 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENT

An infinite coprime sequence defined by recursion. - Michael Somos Mar 14 2004

REFERENCES

L. E. Dickson, History of the Theory of Numbers. Carnegie Institute Public. 256, Washington, DC, Vol. 1, 1919; Vol. 2, 1920; Vol. 3, 1923, see vol. 1, p. 397.

E. Lucas, Nouveaux theoremes d'arithmetique superieure, Comptes Rend., 83 (1876), 1286-1288.

M. Mendes France and A. J. van der Poorten, From geometry to Euler identities, Theoret. Comput. Sci., 65 (1989), 213-220.

J. O. Shallit, Predictable regular continued cotangent expansions. J. Res. Nat. Bur. Standards Sect. B 80B (1976), no. 2, 285-290.

FORMULA

a(n) = Fib(3^n)/Fib(3^(n-1)) - Henry Bottomley (se16(AT)btinternet.com), Jul 10 2001

a(n+1) = 5*(f(n))^2 - 3, where f(n) = Fib(3^n) = product of first n entries. - Lekraj Beedassy (blekraj(AT)yahoo.com), Jun 16 2003

PROGRAM

(PARI) a(n)=if(n<2, max(0, n+1), a(n-1)^3+3*a(n-1)^2-3)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000045, A001566.

Cf. A045529.

Sequence in context: A122054 A092415 A060353 this_sequence A122207 A003819 A112969

Adjacent sequences: A002811 A002812 A002813 this_sequence A002815 A002816 A002817

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

njas

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