OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Old name was: A144863, read as binary numbers, converted to base 10.
All numbers in this sequence for n>1 are congruent to 5 mod 16. - Artur Jasinski, Sep 25 2008
From Omar E. Pol, Sep 10 2011: (Start)
It appears that this is a bisection of A002450.
It appears that this is a bisection of A084241.
It appears that this is a bisection of A153497.
It appears that this is a bisection of A088556, if n>=2.
(End)
All of the above is trivially true. - Joerg Arndt, Aug 19 2014
The aerated sequence (b(n))n>=1 = [1, 0, 21, 0, 341, 0, 5461, 0, 87381, ...] is a fourth-order linear divisibility sequence; that is, a(n) divides a(m) whenever n divides m. It is the case P1 = 0, P2 = -9, Q = -4 of the 3-parameter family of 4th-order linear divisibility sequences found by Williams and Guy. - Peter Bala, Aug 26 2022
LINKS
Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..500
H. C. Williams and R. K. Guy, Some fourth-order linear divisibility sequences, Intl. J. Number Theory 7 (5) (2011) 1255-1277.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (17,-16).
FORMULA
a(n) = 16^n/12 - 1/3; a(n) = 16*a(n-1) + 5, a(1)=1. - Artur Jasinski, Sep 25 2008
G.f.: x*(1+4*x) / ( (16*x-1)*(x-1) ). - R. J. Mathar, Jan 06 2011
a(n)=b such that Integral_{x=-Pi/2..Pi/2} (-1)^(n+1)*2^(2*n-3)*(cos((2*n-1)*x))/(5/4+sin(x)) dx = c+b*log(3). - Francesco Daddi, Aug 02 2011
a(n) = (2^(4*n-2)-1)/3. - Klaus Purath, Jan 31 2021
From Jianing Song, Aug 30 2022: (Start)
a(n) = A001045(4*n-2).
E.g.f.: (exp(16*x) - 4*exp(x) + 3)/12. - Stefano Spezia, Apr 18 2024
MATHEMATICA
Table[1/3 (-1 + 16^(n - 1)) + 16^(n - 1), {n, 1, 17}] (* Artur Jasinski, Sep 25 2008 *)
LinearRecurrence[{17, -16}, {1, 21}, 20] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jun 29 2022 *)
PROG
(Magma) [16^n/12-1/3: n in [1..20]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Aug 03 2011
(PARI) vector(66, n, (4*16^(n-1)-1)/3) \\ Joerg Arndt, Aug 19 2014
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
easy,nonn
AUTHOR
Artur Jasinski, Sep 23 2008
EXTENSIONS
New name from Joerg Arndt, Aug 19 2014
STATUS
approved