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Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics (2).

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Cf. A002864, A086825.

Adjacent sequences: A002860 A002861 A002862 this_sequence A002864 A002865 A002866

Sequence in context: A080021 A032313 A032223 this_sequence A047693 A001532 A109456

nonn,hard,nice

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

This is stated incorrectly in CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, 30th ed., first printing, 1996, p. 320.

Terms from Hoste et al. added by Eric Weisstein (eric(AT)weisstein.com)