Logo

Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!

Hints

Search: id:A008998
Displaying 1-1 of 1 results found. page 1
     Format: long | short | internal | text      Sort: relevance | references | number      Highlight: on | off
A008998 a(n) = 2 a(n-1) + a(n-3). +0
5
1, 2, 4, 9, 20, 44, 97, 214, 472, 1041, 2296, 5064, 11169, 24634, 54332, 119833, 264300, 582932, 1285697, 2835694, 6254320, 13794337, 30424368, 67103056, 148000449, 326425266, 719953588, 1587907625 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENT

A transform of A000079 under the mapping mapping g(x)->(1/(1-x^3))g(x/(1-x^3)). - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Oct 20 2004

The binomial transform yields 1,3,9,..., i.e. A049220 without the leading zeros. - R. J. Mathar (mathar(AT)strw.leidenuniv.nl), May 15 2008

LINKS

INRIA Algorithms Project, Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Structures 452

B. Rittaud, On the Average Growth of Random Fibonacci Sequences, Journal of Integer Sequences, 10 (2007), Article 07.2.4.

FORMULA

a(n)=sum{k=0..floor(n/3), binomial(n-2k, k)2^(n-3k)} - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Oct 20 2004

O.g.f.: 1/(1-2x-x^3). - R. J. Mathar (mathar(AT)strw.leidenuniv.nl), May 15 2008

MAPLE

A008998 := proc(n) option remember; if n <= 2 then 2^n else 2*A008998(n-1)+A008998(n-3); fi; end;

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A130587 A129988 A035530 this_sequence A141016 A024736 A024562

Adjacent sequences: A008995 A008996 A008997 this_sequence A008999 A009000 A009001

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

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

page 1

Search completed in 0.002 seconds

Lookup | Welcome | Find friends | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Transforms | Puzzles | Hot | Classics
More pages | Superseeker | Maintained by N. J. A. Sloane (njas@research.att.com)

Last modified November 24 19:42 EST 2009. Contains 167435 sequences.


AT&T Labs Research