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A005709 a(n)=a(n-1)+a(n-7).
(Formerly M0492)
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1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 17, 22, 28, 35, 43, 53, 66, 83, 105, 133, 168, 211, 264, 330, 413, 518, 651, 819, 1030, 1294, 1624, 2037, 2555, 3206, 4025, 5055, 6349, 7973, 10010, 12565, 15771, 19796, 24851 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,8

COMMENT

This comment covers a family of sequences which satisfy a recurrence of the form a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-m), with a(n) = 1 for n = 0...m-1. The generating function is 1/(1-x-x^m). Also a(n) = sum(binomial(n-(m-1)*i, i), i=0..n/m). This family of binomial summations or recurrences gives the number of ways to cover (without overlapping) a linear lattice of n sites with molecules that are m sites wide. Special case: m=1: A000079; m=4: A003269; m=5: A003520; m=6: A005708; m=7: A005709; m=8: A005710.

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.

Problem E3274, Amer. Math. Monthly, 95 (1988), 555.

E. Di Cera and Y. Kong, Theory of multivalent binding in one and two-dimensional lattices, Biophysical Chemistry, Vol. 61 (1996), pp. 107-124.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..500

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.

INRIA Algorithms Project, Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Structures 380

MAPLE

A005709 := proc(n) option remember; if n <=6 then 1; else A005709(n-1)+A005709(n-7); fi; end;

with(combstruct): SeqSetU := [S, {S=Sequence(U), U=Set(Z, card > 6)}, unlabeled]: seq(count(SeqSetU, size=j), j=7..55); - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Oct 10 2006

A005709:=-1/(-1+z+z**7); [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

ZL:=[S, {a = Atom, b = Atom, S = Prod(X, Sequence(Prod(X, b))), X = Sequence(b, card >= 6)}, unlabelled]: seq(combstruct[count](ZL, size=n), n=6..54); - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Mar 26 2008

MATHEMATICA

f[ n_Integer ] := f[ n ]=If[ n>7, f[ n-1 ]+f[ n-7 ], 1 ]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000045, A000079, A000930, A003269, A003520, A005708, A005710, A005711.

Adjacent sequences: A005706 A005707 A005708 this_sequence A005710 A005711 A005712

Sequence in context: A062010 A071218 A017901 this_sequence A101917 A127273 A033073

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

njas

EXTENSIONS

Additional comments from Yong Kong (ykong(AT)curagen.com), Dec 16 2000

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