A153059 - OEIS

A153059

a(0) = 0, a(n) = a(n-1)^2 - n.

0, -1, -1, -2, 0, -5, 19, 354, 125308, 15702094855, 246555782835417471015, 60789754049585540423053668337098365130214, 3695394197409101611007702673065886746062029284385286815035968423367078017175685784

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OFFSET

0,4

LINKS

Indranil Ghosh, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..15

Index entries for sequences of form a(n+1)=a(n)^2 + ...

FORMULA

a(n) ~ c^(2^n), where c = 1.0469211647756727790926917384863725994592251990011465128982697545064576849... . - Vaclav Kotesovec, Dec 18 2014

MATHEMATICA

a=0; lst={}; Do[a=a^2-n; AppendTo[lst, a], {n, 0, 14}]; lst

RecurrenceTable[{a[0]==0, a[n]==a[n-1]^2-n}, a, {n, 12}] (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 05 2013 *)

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A137260 A263101 A219765 * A151336 A346092 A180491

Adjacent sequences: A153056 A153057 A153058 * A153060 A153061 A153062

KEYWORD

sign,easy

AUTHOR

Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Dec 17 2008

STATUS

approved