OFFSET
0,5
REFERENCES
A. Brousseau, Fibonacci and Related Number Theoretic Tables. Fibonacci Association, San Jose, CA, 1972, p. 113.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
Seiichi Manyama, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..3850
V. C. Harris, C. C. Styles, A generalization of Fibonacci numbers, Fib. Quart. 2 (1964) 277-289, sequence u(n,1,3).
V. E. Hoggatt, Jr., 7-page typed letter to N. J. A. Sloane with suggestions for new sequences, circa 1977.
Vedran Krcadinac, A new generalization of the golden ratio, Fibonacci Quart. 44 (2006), no. 4, 335-340.
Simon Plouffe, Approximations de séries génératrices et quelques conjectures, Dissertation, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1992; arXiv:0911.4975 [math.NT], 2009.
Simon Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions, Appendix to Thesis, Montreal, 1992
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (3, -3, 1, 1).
FORMULA
G.f. : (1-x)^2/(1-3x+3x^2-x^3-x^4); a(n)=3a(n-1)-3a(n-2)+a(n-3)+a(n-4). - Paul Barry, Jul 07 2004
MAPLE
A003522:=-(z-1)**2/(-1+3*z-3*z**2+z**4+z**3); # conjectured by Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation
MATHEMATICA
LinearRecurrence[{3, -3, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1, 1}, 35] (* Ray Chandler, Sep 23 2015 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n)=if(n<0, 0, polcoeff((1-x)^2/(1-3*x+3*x^2-x^3-x^4)+x*O(x^n), n)) /* Michael Somos, Sep 20 2005 */
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved