OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
LINKS
Indranil Ghosh, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Antti Karttunen, C-program for computing the initial terms of this sequence
FORMULA
G.f.: (1+4x-(1+2x)sqrt(1-4x^2))/(2x). - Paul Barry, Apr 11 2005
C(2*j,j)/(1+j)*i, i=1..2), j >= 0. - Zerinvary Lajos, Apr 29 2007
D-finite with recurrence: (n+1)*a(n) - 2*a(n-1) + 4(3-n)*a(n-2) = 0. - R. J. Mathar, Dec 17 2011, corrected by Georg Fischer, Feb 13 2020
MAPLE
seq(seq(binomial(2*j, j)/(1+j)*i, i=1..2), j=0..19); # Zerinvary Lajos, Apr 29 2007
MATHEMATICA
a[0] = 1; a[n_] := If[EvenQ[n], 2*CatalanNumber[n/2 - 1], CatalanNumber[(n-1)/2]]; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 40}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Jul 24 2013 *)
PROG
(Scheme) (define (A089408 n) (cond ((zero? n) 1) ((even? n) (* 2 (A000108 (-1+ (/ n 2))))) (else (A000108 (/ (-1+ n) 2)))))
(Python)
from sympy import catalan
def a(n): return 1 if n==0 else 2*catalan(n//2 - 1) if n%2==0 else catalan((n - 1)//2) # Indranil Ghosh, May 23 2017
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Antti Karttunen, Nov 29 2003
STATUS
approved