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A006482 Euler characteristics of polytopes.
(Formerly M1357)
+0
1
1, 1, 0, 2, 5, 9, 14, 20, 69, 125, 209, 329, 923, 1715, 3002, 5004, 12869, 24309, 43757, 75581, 184755, 352715, 646645, 1144065, 2704155, 5200299, 9657699, 17383859, 40116599 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,4

REFERENCES

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

H. Hadwiger and P. Mani, On polyhedra with extremal Euler characteristic, J. Combin. Theory, A 17 (1974), 345-349.

FORMULA

Numbers suggest that for n>3, a(n) = C(n, [n/2])-1 if (n mod 4)=0 or 1 and C(n, [n/2]-1)-1 otherwise. - R. Stephan, Jun 07 2005

PROGRAM

(PARI) a(n)=if(n<3, (n==0||n==1), if(n<4, 2, -1+if(n%4==0||n%4==1, binomial(n, n\2), binomial(n, n\2-1)))) /* (from R. Stephan) */

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A112873 A048093 A024669 this_sequence A152888 A139423 A026053

Adjacent sequences: A006479 A006480 A006481 this_sequence A006483 A006484 A006485

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

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

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