OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
a(8) has 149 digits. - Harvey P. Dale, May 08 2011
LINKS
T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10
FORMULA
a(n) = binomial(a(n-1)+1, 2), a(0)=7.
a(n) ~ 2 * c^(2^n), where c = 3.77579046114281148578572146955902030830005575599864345238... . - Vaclav Kotesovec, Dec 17 2014
MATHEMATICA
NestList[Binomial[#+1, 2]&, 7, 10] (* Harvey P. Dale, May 08 2011 *)
t = {7}; Do[AppendTo[t, t[[-1]]*(1 + t[[-1]])/2], {9}] (* T. D. Noe, Mar 03 2014 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n)=my(k=7); for(i=1, n, k=binomial(k+1, 2)); k \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Mar 03 2014
(Haskell)
a050548 n = a050548_list !! n
a050548_list = iterate a000217 7
(Python)
from itertools import accumulate
def f(an, _): return an*(an+1)//2
print(list(accumulate([7]*11, f))) # Michael S. Branicky, Jul 28 2021
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy,nice
AUTHOR
Klaus Strassburger (strass(AT)ddfi.uni-duesseldorf.de), Dec 29 1999
EXTENSIONS
a(7) provided by Harvey P. Dale, May 08 2011
STATUS
approved