OFFSET
0,1
REFERENCES
L. B. W. Jolley, Summation of Series, Dover, 1961.
LINKS
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (4,-6,4,-1).
FORMULA
G.f.: 3*(5 + 85*x + 39*x^2 - x^3)/(1-x)^4 .
E.g.f: (15 + 300*x + 336*x^2 + 64*x^3)*exp(x) .
Sum_{n>=0} 4/a(n) = (Pi-2)/4. [Jolley, eq. 238]
a(n) = 4*a(n-1) - 6*a(n-2) + 4*a(n-3) - a(n-4) for n>3. - Harvey P. Dale, May 06 2012
Sum_{n>=0} (-1)^n/a(n) = 1/8 + (log(2*sqrt(2)+3) - Pi)/(16*sqrt(2)). - Amiram Eldar, Feb 27 2022
MAPLE
seq((4*n+1)*(4*n+3)*(4*n+5), n=0..40);
MATHEMATICA
Table[c=4n; (c+1)(c+3)(c+5), {n, 0, 30}] (* or *) LinearRecurrence[{4, -6, 4, -1}, {15, 315, 1287, 3315}, 30] (* Harvey P. Dale, May 06 2012 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n)=(4*n+1)*(4*n+3)*(4*n+5) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Oct 16 2015
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Miklos Kristof, Jan 02 2008
STATUS
approved