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A005686 Number of Twopins positions.
(Formerly M0267)
+0
2
0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 18, 22, 27, 34, 41, 52, 63, 79, 97, 120, 149, 183, 228, 280, 348, 429, 531, 657, 811, 1005, 1240, 1536, 1897, 2347, 2902, 3587, 4438, 5484, 6785, 8386, 10372, 12824, 15856, 19609, 24242, 29981, 37066, 45837 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,7

COMMENT

Appears to be the pairwise sums of A001687. - R. Stephan, Apr 21 2004

REFERENCES

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.

R. K. Guy, ``Anyone for Twopins?,'' in D. A. Klarner, editor, The Mathematical Gardner. Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, Boston, 1981, pp. 2-15.

LINKS

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.

FORMULA

a(n)=sum{k=0..floor(n/2), binomial(floor((n+3k-3)/5), k)} - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Jul 10 2004

G.f.: [x+x^2]/[1-x^2-x^5]. - R. Stephan, Apr 21 2004

a(n)=a(n-2)+a(n-5). - Michael Somos, Jul 15 2004

MAPLE

A005686:=-(z+1)*(z**3+z+1)/(-1+z**2+z**5); [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

PROGRAM

(PARI) a(n)=if(n<0, polcoeff((x^3+x^4)/(1+x^3-x^5)+x^-n*O(x), -n), polcoeff((x+x^2)/(1-x^2-x^5)+x^n*O(x), n)) /* Michael Somos, Jul 15 2004 */

(PARI) a(n)=sum(k=0, (n-1)\2, binomial((n+3*k-4)\5, k))

CROSSREFS

Cf. A001687.

Sequence in context: A096792 A015741 A015753 this_sequence A118082 A120160 A017980

Adjacent sequences: A005683 A005684 A005685 this_sequence A005687 A005688 A005689

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

njas

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Jul 10 2004

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