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A079978 Characteristic function of multiples of three.

1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0

Offset: 0

Vladimir Baltic, Feb 17 2003

Period 3: repeat [1, 0, 0].
a(n)=1 if n=3k, a(n)=0 otherwise.
Decimal expansion of 1/999.
Number of permutations satisfying -k <= p(i)-i <= r and p(i)-i not in I, i=1..n, with k=1, r=2, I={0,1}.
a(n) is also the number of partitions of n with every part being three (a(0)=1 because the empty partition has no parts). Hence a(n) is also the number of 2-regular graphs on n vertices with each component having girth 3. - Jason Kimberley, Oct 02 2011
Euler transformation of A185013. - Jason Kimberley, Oct 02 2011
If b(0)=0 and for n > 0, b(n)=a(n), then starting at n=0, b(n) is the number of incongruent equilateral triangles formed from the vertices of a regular n-gon. The number of incongruent isosceles triangles (strictly two equal sides) is A174257(n) and the number of incongruent scalene triangles is A069905(n-3) for n > 2, otherwise 0. The total number of incongruent triangles is A069905(n). - Frank M Jackson, Nov 19 2022

D. H. Lehmer, Permutations with strongly restricted displacements. Combinatorial theory and its applications, II (Proc. Colloq., Balatonfured, 1969), pp. 755-770. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1970.

Vladimir Baltic, On the number of certain types of strongly restricted permutations, Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics Vol. 4, No 1 (2010), 119-135.
N. Gogin and A. Mylläri, Padovan-like sequences and Bell polynomials, Proceedings of Applications of Computer Algebra ACA, 2013.
Clark Kimberling, A Combinatorial Classification of Triangle Centers on the Line at Infinity, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 22 (2019), Article 19.5.4.
Index entries for characteristic functions
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,0,1).

Cf. A002524-A002529, A072827, A072850-A072856, A079955-A080014.
Essentially the same as A022003.
Partial sums are given by A002264(n+3).
Characteristic function of multiples of g: A000007 (g=0), A000012 (g=1), A059841 (g=2), this sequence (g=3), A121262 (g=4), A079998 (g=5), A079979 (g=6), A082784 (g=7). - Jason Kimberley, Oct 14 2011
Cf. A007908, A011655 (bit flipped).

a079978 = fromEnum . (== 0) . (`mod` 3)
a079978_list = cycle [1,0,0]
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 28 2012, Nov 26 2011

&cat[[1,0,0]^^30]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Dec 26 2015

seq(op([1, 0, 0]), n=0..50); # Wesley Ivan Hurt, Jun 30 2016

Table[Boole[IntegerQ[n/3]], {n, 0, 127}] (* Michael De Vlieger, Jan 03 2015, after Alonso del Arte at A121262 *)

a(n)=!(n%3) \\ Jaume Oliver Lafont, Mar 01 2009

a(n) = a(n-3) for n > 2.
G.f.: 1/(1-x^3) = 1/( (1-x)*(1+x+x^2)).
a(n) = (1 + e^(i*Pi*A002487(n)))/2, i=sqrt(-1). - Paul Barry, Jan 14 2005
Additive with a(p^e) = 1 if p = 3, 0 otherwise.
a(n) = ((n+1) mod 3) mod 2. Also: a(n) = (1/2)*(1 + (-1)^(n + floor((n+1)/3))). - Hieronymus Fischer, May 29 2007
a(n) = 1 - A011655(n). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Nov 30 2009
a(n) = (1 + (-1)^(2*n/3) + (-1)^(-2*n/3))/3. - Jaume Oliver Lafont, May 13 2010
For the general case: the characteristic function of numbers that are multiples of m is a(n) = floor(n/m) - floor((n-1)/m), m,n > 0. - Boris Putievskiy, May 08 2013
a(n) = floor( ((n-1) mod 3)/2 ). - Wesley Ivan Hurt, Jun 29 2013
a(n) = 2^(n mod 3) mod 2. - Olivier Gérard, Jul 04 2013
a(n) = (w^(2*n) + w^n + 1)/3, w = (-1 + i*sqrt(3))/2 (w is a primitive 3rd root of unity). - Bogart B. Strauss, Jul 20 2013
E.g.f.: (exp(x) + 2*exp(-x/2)*cos(sqrt(3)*x/2))/3. - Geoffrey Critzer, Nov 03 2014
a(n) = (sin(Pi*(n+1)/3)^2)*(2/3) + sin(Pi*(n+1)*2/3)/sqrt(3). - Mikael Aaltonen, Jan 03 2015
a(n) = (2*n^2 + 1) mod 3. The characteristic function of numbers that are multiples of 2k+1 is (2*k*n^(2*k) + 1) mod (2k+1). Example: A058331(n) mod 3 for k=1, A211412(n) mod 5 for k=2, ... - Eric Desbiaux, Dec 25 2015
a(n) = floor(2*(n-1)/3) - 2*floor((n-1)/3). - Wesley Ivan Hurt, Jul 25 2016
a(n) == A007908(n+1) (mod 3), n >= 0. See A011655 (bit flipped). - Wolfdieter Lang, Jun 12 2017
a(n) = 1/3 + (2/3)*cos((2/3)*n*Pi). - Ridouane Oudra, Jan 22 2021
a(n) = A000217(n+1) mod 3. - Christopher Adams, Jan 05 2025

Name simplified by Ralf Stephan, Nov 22 2010

Name changed by Jason Kimberley, Oct 14 2011

A003269 a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-4) with a(0) = 0, a(1) = a(2) = a(3) = 1.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 14, 19, 26, 36, 50, 69, 95, 131, 181, 250, 345, 476, 657, 907, 1252, 1728, 2385, 3292, 4544, 6272, 8657, 11949, 16493, 22765, 31422, 43371, 59864, 82629, 114051, 157422, 217286, 299915, 413966, 571388, 788674, 1088589, 1502555, 2073943

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

This comment covers a family of sequences which satisfy a recurrence of the form a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-m), with a(n) = 1 for n = 0..m-1. The generating function is 1/(1-x-x^m). Also a(n) = Sum_{i=0..n/m} binomial(n-(m-1)*i, i). This family of binomial summations or recurrences gives the number of ways to cover (without overlapping) a linear lattice of n sites with molecules that are m sites wide. Special case: m=1: A000079; m=4: A003269; m=5: A003520; m=6: A005708; m=7: A005709; m=8: A005710.
For this family of sequences, a(n+1) is the number of compositions of n+1 into parts 1 and m. For n>=m, a(n-m+1)is the number of compositions of n in which each part is greater than m or equivalently, in which parts 1 through m are excluded. - Gregory L. Simay, Jul 14 2016
For this family of sequences, let a(m,n) = a(n-1) + a(n-m). Then the number of compositions of n having m as a least summand is a(m, n-m) - a(m+1, n-m-1). - Gregory L. Simay, Jul 14 2016
For n>=3, a(n-3) = number of compositions of n in which each part is >=4. - Milan Janjic, Jun 28 2010
For n>=1, number of compositions of n into parts == 1 (mod 4). Example: a(8)=5 because there are 5 compositions of 8 into parts 1 or 5: (1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1), (1,1,1,5), (1,1,5,1), (1,5,1,1), (5,1,1,1). - Adi Dani, Jun 16 2011
a(n+1) is the number of compositions of n into parts 1 and 4. - Joerg Arndt, Jun 25 2011
The compositions of n in which each natural number is colored by one of p different colors are called p-colored compositions of n. For n>=4, 2*a(n-3) equals the number of 2-colored compositions of n with all parts >= 4, such that no adjacent parts have the same color. - Milan Janjic, Nov 27 2011
Number of permutations satisfying -k<=p(i)-i<=r and p(i)-i not in I, i=1..n, with k=1, r=3, I={1,2}. - Vladimir Baltic, Mar 07 2012
a(n+4) equals the number of binary words of length n having at least 3 zeros between every two successive ones. - Milan Janjic, Feb 07 2015
From Clark Kimberling, Jun 13 2016: (Start)
Let T* be the infinite tree with root 0 generated by these rules: if p is in T*, then p+1 is in T* and x*p is in T*.
Let g(n) be the set of nodes in the n-th generation, so that g(0) = {0}, g(1) = {1}, g(2) = {2,x}, g(3) = {3, 2*x, x+1, x^2}, etc.
Let T(r) be the tree obtained by substituting r for x.
If N is a positive integer such that r = N^(1/4) is not an integer, then the number of (not necessarily distinct) integers in g(n) is A003269(n), for n > = 1. See A274142. (End)

			G.f.: x + x^2 + x^3 + x^4 + 2*x^5 + 3*x^6 + 4*x^7 + 5*x^8 + 7*x^9 + 10*x^10 + ...
The number of compositions of 12 having 4 as a least summand is a(4, 12 -4 + 1) - a(5, 12 - 5 + 1) = A003269(9) - A003520(8) = 7-4 = 3. The compositions are (84), (48) and (444). - _Gregory L. Simay_, Jul 14 2016

A. Brousseau, Fibonacci and Related Number Theoretic Tables. Fibonacci Association, San Jose, CA, 1972, p. 120.
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Index entries for two-way infinite sequences
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (1,0,0,1).

Cf. A000045, A000079, A000930, A003520, A005708, A005709, A005710, A005711, A017898.
Cf. A048718, A072827, A072850, A072851, A072852, A072853, A072854, A072855, A072856.
Cf. A079955 - A080014.
See A017898 for an essentially identical sequence.
Row sums of A180184.

a003269 n = a003269_list !! n
a003269_list = 0 : 1 : 1 : 1 : zipWith (+) a003269_list
                                          (drop 3 a003269_list)
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 27 2011

I:=[0,1,1,1]; [n le 4 select I[n] else Self(n-1) + Self(n-4) :n in [1..50]]; // Marius A. Burtea, Sep 13 2019

with(combstruct): SeqSetU := [S, {S=Sequence(U), U=Set(Z, card > 3)}, unlabeled]: seq(count(SeqSetU, size=j), j=4..51);
seq(add(binomial(n-3*k,k),k=0..floor(n/3)),n=0..47); # Zerinvary Lajos, Apr 03 2007
A003269:=z/(1-z-z**4); # Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation
ZL:=[S, {a = Atom, b = Atom, S = Prod(X,Sequence(Prod(X,b))), X = Sequence(b,card >= 3)}, unlabelled]: seq(combstruct[count](ZL, size=n), n=3..50); # Zerinvary Lajos, Mar 26 2008
M:= Matrix(4, (i,j)-> if j=1 then [1,0,0,1][i] elif (i=j-1) then 1 else 0 fi); a:= n-> (M^(n))[1,2]; seq(a(n), n=0..48); # Alois P. Heinz, Jul 27 2008

a[0]= 0; a[1]= a[2]= a[3]= 1; a[n_]:= a[n]= a[n-1] + a[n-4]; Table[a[n], {n,0,50}]
CoefficientList[Series[x/(1-x-x^4), {x,0,50}], x] (* Zerinvary Lajos, Mar 29 2007 *)
Table[Sum[Binomial[n-3*i-1,i], {i,0,(n-1)/3}], {n,0,50}]
LinearRecurrence[{1,0,0,1}, {0,1,1,1}, 50] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jul 12 2014 *)
nxt[{a_,b_,c_,d_}]:={b,c,d,a+d}; NestList[nxt,{0,1,1,1},50][[;;,1]] (* Harvey P. Dale, May 27 2024 *)

{a(n) = polcoeff( if( n<0, (1 + x^3) / (1 + x^3 - x^4), 1 / (1 - x - x^4)) + x * O(x^abs(n)), abs(n))} /* Michael Somos, Jul 12 2003 */

@CachedFunction
def a(n): return ((n+2)//3) if (n<4) else a(n-1) + a(n-4) # a = A003269
[a(n) for n in (0..50)] # G. C. Greubel, Jul 25 2022

G.f.: x/(1-x-x^4).
G.f.: -1 + 1/(1-Sum_{k>=0} x^(4*k+1)).
a(n) = a(n-3) + a(n-4) + a(n-5) + a(n-6) for n>4.
a(n) = floor(d*c^n + 1/2) where c is the positive real root of -x^4+x^3+1 and d is the positive real root of 283*x^4-18*x^2-8*x-1 (c=1.38027756909761411... and d=0.3966506381592033124...). - Benoit Cloitre, Nov 30 2002
Equivalently, a(n) = floor(c^(n+3)/(c^4+3) + 1/2) with c as defined above (see A086106). - Greg Dresden and Shuer Jiang, Aug 31 2019
a(n) = term (1,2) in the 4 X 4 matrix [1,1,0,0; 0,0,1,0; 0,0,0,1; 1,0,0,0]^n. - Alois P. Heinz, Jul 27 2008
From Paul Barry, Oct 20 2009: (Start)
a(n+1) = Sum_{k=0..n} C((n+3*k)/4,k)*((1+(-1)^(n-k))/2 + cos(Pi*n/2))/2;
a(n+1) = Sum_{k=0..n} C(k,floor((n-k)/3))(2*cos(2*Pi*(n-k)/3)+1)/3. (End)
a(n) = Sum_{j=0..(n-1)/3} binomial(n-1-3*j,j) (cf. A180184). - Vladimir Kruchinin, May 23 2011
A017817(n) = a(-4 - n) * (-1)^n. - Michael Somos, Jul 12 2003
G.f.: Q(0)*x/2, where Q(k) = 1 + 1/(1 - x*(2*k+1 + x^3)/( x*(2*k+2 + x^3) + 1/Q(k+1) )); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Aug 29 2013
Appears a(n) = hypergeometric([1/4-n/4,1/2-n/4,3/4-n/4,1-n/4], [1/3-n/3,2/3-n/3,1-n/3], -4^4/3^3) for n>=10. - Peter Luschny, Sep 18 2014

Additional comments from Yong Kong (ykong(AT)curagen.com), Dec 16 2000

Initial 0 prepended by N. J. A. Sloane, Apr 09 2008

A002524 Number of permutations of length n within distance 2 of a fixed permutation.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 2, 6, 14, 31, 73, 172, 400, 932, 2177, 5081, 11854, 27662, 64554, 150639, 351521, 820296, 1914208, 4466904, 10423761, 24324417, 56762346, 132458006, 309097942, 721296815, 1683185225, 3927803988, 9165743600, 21388759708, 49911830577, 116471963129

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

From Torleiv Kløve, Jan 09 2009: (Start)
Let V(d,n) be the number of permutations of length n within distance d of a fixed permutation. For d=1,2,3,4,...,10 these are A000045, A002524, A002526, A072856, A154654, A154655, A154656, A154657, A154658, A154659. The generating function is a rational function f_d(z)/g_d(z) (see the Kløve report referenced here). For d<=6, deg g_d = 2^{d-1} + binomial(2*d,d)/2 and deg f_d(z) = deg g_d(z)-2d. As a table:
   d deg g_d deg f_d
   1    2       0
   2    5       1
   3   14       8
   4   43      35
   5  142     132
   6  494     482
(End)
For positive n, a(n) equals the permanent of the n X n matrix with 1's along the five central diagonals, and 0's everywhere else. - John M. Campbell, Jul 09 2011

D. H. Lehmer, Permutations with strongly restricted displacements. Combinatorial theory and its applications, II (Proc. Colloq., Balatonfured, 1969), pp. 755-770. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1970.
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
R. P. Stanley, Enumerative Combinatorics I, Example 4.7.16, p. 253.

R. H. Hardin, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..400, Jul 11 2010
V. Baltic, On the number of certain types of strongly restricted permutations, Appl. An. Disc. Math. 4 (2010), 119-135; DOI:10.2298/AADM1000008B.
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Fan R. K. Chung, Persi Diaconis, and Ron Graham, Permanental generating functions and sequential importance sampling, Stanford University (2018).
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Torleiv Kløve, Generating functions for the number of permutations with limited displacement, Electron. J. Combin., 16 (2009), #R104. - From _N. J. A. Sloane_, May 04 2011.
O. Krafft and M. Schaefer, On the number of permutations within a given distance, Fib. Quart. 40 (5) (2002) 429-434.
Ting Kuo, K-sorted Permutations with Weakly Restricted Displacements, Journal of Computers, 2014. See p. 36.
R. Lagrange, Quelques résultats dans la métrique des permutations, Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 79 (1962), 199-241.
Simon Plouffe, Approximations de séries génératrices et quelques conjectures, Dissertation, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1992; arXiv:0911.4975 [math.NT], 2009.
Simon Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions, Appendix to Thesis, Montreal, 1992.
Andrew Tsao, Sampling Methodology for Intractable Counting Problems, Ph. D. Thesis, Stanford University (2020).
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (2,0,2,0,-1).

Column k=2 of A306209.

I:=[1,1,2,6,14]; [n le 5 select I[n] else 2*Self(n-1) +2*Self(n-3) -Self(n-5): n in [1..41]]; // G. C. Greubel, Jan 21 2022

CoefficientList[Series[(1-x)/(1-2*x-2*x^3+x^5), {x,0,50}], x] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Jun 24 2011 *)

a(n)=if(n,([0,1,0,0,0; 0,0,1,0,0; 0,0,0,1,0; 0,0,0,0,1; -1,0,2,0,2]^n*[1;1;2;6;14])[1,1],1) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jul 28 2015

[( (1-x)/(1-2*x-2*x^3+x^5) ).series(x,n+1).list()[n] for n in (0..40)] # G. C. Greubel, Jan 21 2022

G.f.: (1-x)/(1-2*x-2*x^3+x^5). - Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.

Typo in comment corrected by Vaclav Kotesovec, Dec 01 2012

A072827 Number of permutations satisfying i-2<=p(i)<=i+3, i=1..n.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 6, 18, 46, 115, 301, 792, 2068, 5380, 14020, 36581, 95413, 248786, 648714, 1691686, 4411530, 11503991, 29998953, 78228640, 203998184, 531969064, 1387222648, 3617479225, 9433351129, 24599481138, 64148406350, 167280683834

Offset: 1

Vladimir Baltic, Jul 21 2002

R. H. Hardin, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..400
Vladimir Baltic, On the number of certain types of strongly restricted permutations, Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics Vol. 4, No 1 (April, 2010), 119-135.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (1,2,3,5,6,-1,-1,0,-1,-1).

Cf. A002524, A002525, A002526, A002527, A002528, A002529, A072850, A072851, A072852, A072853, A072854, A072855, A072856, A079955-A080014.

LinearRecurrence[{1,2,3,5,6,-1,-1,0,-1,-1},{1,2,6,18,46,115,301,792,2068,5380},30] (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 15 2014 *)

a(n)=([0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0; 0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0; 0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0; 0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0; 0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0; 0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0; 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0; 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0; 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1; -1,-1,0,-1,-1,6,5,3,2,1]^(n-1)*[1;2;6;18;46;115;301;792;2068;5380])[1,1] \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jul 28 2015

Recurrence: a(n) = a(n-1)+2*a(n-2)+3*a(n-3)+5*a(n-4)+6*a(n-5)-a(n-6)-a(n-7)-a(n-9)-a(n-10).

G.f.: (1-x^5-x^3-x^2)/(x^10+x^9+x^7+x^6-6*x^5-5*x^4-3*x^3-2*x^2-x+1). [Corrected by Georg Fischer, May 15 2019]

A072850 Number of permutations satisfying i-2<=p(i)<=i+4, i=1..n.

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1, 2, 6, 18, 54, 146, 391, 1081, 3004, 8320, 22984, 63424, 175176, 484113, 1337721, 3695886, 10210702, 28209954, 77940078, 215337554, 594943087, 1643728129, 4541349672, 12547013504, 34665373744, 95774808224, 264610227072

Offset: 1

Vladimir Baltic, Jul 25 2002

R. H. Hardin, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..400
Vladimir Baltic, On the number of certain types of strongly restricted permutations, Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics Vol. 4, No 1 (April, 2010), 119-135
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 12, -4, -6, -6, 0, -2, -2, 0, 1, 1).

Cf. A002524-A002529, A072827, A072850-A072856, A079955-A080014.

Recurrence: a(n) = a(n - 1) + 2*a(n - 2) + 4*a(n - 3) + 6*a(n - 4) + 10*a(n - 5) + 12*a(n - 6) - 4*a(n - 7) - 6*a(n - 8) - 6*a(n - 9) - 2*a(n - 11) - 2*a(n - 12) + a(n - 14) + a(n - 15).

G.f.: - (x^9 + x^7 - 2*x^6 - 2*x^4 - 2*x^3 - x^2 + 1)/(x^15 + x^14 - 2*x^12 - 2*x^11 - 6*x^9 - 6*x^8 - 4*x^7 + 12*x^6 + 10*x^5 + 6*x^4 + 4*x^3 + 2*x^2 + x - 1)

A080014 Number of permutations satisfying -k<=p(i)-i<=r and p(i)-i not in I, i=1..n, with k=2, r=2, I={1}.

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1, 1, 1, 3, 6, 10, 18, 35, 65, 119, 221, 412, 764, 1416, 2629, 4881, 9057, 16807, 31194, 57894, 107442, 199399, 370065, 686799, 1274617, 2365544, 4390184, 8147680, 15121161, 28063153, 52082017, 96658283, 179386750, 332921362, 617864098

Offset: 0

Vladimir Baltic, Jan 24 2003

D. H. Lehmer, Permutations with strongly restricted displacements. Combinatorial theory and its applications, II (Proc. Colloq., Balatonfured, 1969), pp. 755-770. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1970.

Harvey P. Dale, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Vladimir Baltic, On the number of certain types of strongly restricted permutations, Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics Vol. 4, No 1 (2010), 119-135
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (1,1,1,1,-1,-1).

Cf. A002524-A002529, A072827, A072850..A072856, A079955..A080014.

LinearRecurrence[{1,1,1,1,-1,-1},{1,1,1,3,6,10},40] (* Harvey P. Dale, Mar 10 2024 *)

Vec(-(x^2-1)/(x^6+x^5-x^4-x^3-x^2-x+1)+O(x^99)) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jun 12 2015

Recurrence: a(n) = a(n-1)+a(n-2)+a(n-3)+a(n-4)-a(n-5)-a(n-6).

G.f.: -(x^2-1)/(x^6+x^5-x^4-x^3-x^2-x+1).

A079955 Number of permutations satisfying -k<=p(i)-i<=r and p(i)-i not in I, i=1..n, with k=1, r=5, I={0,2,3}.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 15, 19, 26, 34, 46, 60, 80, 105, 140, 185, 246, 325, 431, 570, 756, 1001, 1327, 1757, 2328, 3083, 4085, 5411, 7169, 9496, 12580, 16664, 22076, 29244, 38741, 51320, 67985, 90060, 119305, 158045, 209366, 277350, 367411

Offset: 0

Vladimir Baltic, Feb 19 2003

Number of compositions (ordered partitions) of n into elements of the set {2,5,6}.

D. H. Lehmer, Permutations with strongly restricted displacements. Combinatorial theory and its applications, II (Proc. Colloq., Balatonfured, 1969), pp. 755-770. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1970.

G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Vladimir Baltic, On the number of certain types of strongly restricted permutations, Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics Vol. 4, No 1 (2010), 119-135
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,1,0,0,1,1).

Cf. A002524, A002525, A002526, A002527, A002528, A002529, A072827.
Cf. A072850, A072851, A072852, A072853, A072854, A072855, A072856.
Cf. A079955 - A080014.

R:=PowerSeriesRing(Integers(), 50); Coefficients(R!( 1/(1-x^2-x^5-x^6) )); // G. C. Greubel, Dec 11 2019

seq(coeff(series(1/(1-x^2-x^5-x^6), x, n+1), x, n), n = 0..50); # G. C. Greubel, Dec 11 2019

LinearRecurrence[{0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1}, {1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1}, 51] (* Jean-François Alcover, Dec 11 2019 *)

a(n) = ([0,1,0,0,0,0; 0,0,1,0,0,0; 0,0,0,1,0,0; 0,0,0,0,1,0; 0,0,0,0,0,1; 1,1,0,0,1,0]^n*[1;0;1;0;1;1])[1,1] \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jul 28 2015

def A079955_list(prec):
    P. = PowerSeriesRing(ZZ, prec)
    return P( 1/(1-x^2-x^5-x^6) ).list()
A079955_list(50) # G. C. Greubel, Dec 11 2019

a(n) = a(n-2) + a(n-5) + a(n-6).

G.f.: 1/(1 - x^2 - x^5 - x^6).

A079998 The characteristic function of the multiples of five.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1

Offset: 0

Vladimir Baltic, Feb 10 2003

Number of permutations satisfying -k <= p(i) - i <= r and p(i) - i not in I, i = 1..n, with k = 2, r = 3, I = {-1, 0, 1, 2}.
a(n) = 1 if n = 5k, a(n) = 0 otherwise. Also, number of permutations satisfying -k <= p(i) - i <= r and p(i) - i not in I, i = 1..n, with k = 1, r = 4, I = {0, 1, 2, 3}.
a(n) is also the number of partitions of n with each part being five (a(0) = 1 because the empty partition has no parts to test equality with five). Hence a(n) is also the number of 2-regular graphs on n vertices with each component having girth exactly five. - Jason Kimberley, Oct 02 2011
This sequence is the Euler transformation of A185015. - Jason Kimberley, Oct 02 2011

D. H. Lehmer, Permutations with strongly restricted displacements. Combinatorial theory and its applications, II (Proc. Colloq., Balatonfured, 1969), pp. 755-770. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1970.

Antti Karttunen, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..16385
Vladimir Baltic, On the number of certain types of strongly restricted permutations, Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics Vol. 4, No 1 (April, 2010), 119-135.
Benoit Cloitre, A study of a family of self-referential sequences, arXiv:2506.18103 [math.GM], 2025. See p. 10.
Index entries for characteristic functions
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,0,0,0,1).

Cf. A011558, A008587, A002524-A002529, A072827, A072850-A072856, A079955-A080014.

Characteristic function of multiples of g: A000007 (g = 0), A000012 (g = 1), A059841 (g = 2), A079978 (g = 3), A121262 (g = 4), this sequence (g = 5), A079979 (g = 6), A082784 (g = 7). - Jason Kimberley, Oct 14 2011

[Binomial(n-1,4) mod 5 : n in [0..100]]; // Wesley Ivan Hurt, Oct 06 2014

A079998:=n->binomial(n-1,4) mod 5: seq(A079998(n), n=0..100); # Wesley Ivan Hurt, Oct 06 2014

Table[Mod[Binomial[n - 1, 4], 5], {n, 0, 100}] (* Wesley Ivan Hurt, Oct 06 2014 *)
Table[Boole[Divisible[n, 5]], {n, 0, 99}] (* Alonso del Arte, Nov 29 2014 *)
PadRight[{},120,{1,0,0,0,0}] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jul 11 2023 *)

a(n)=!(n%5) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Mar 07 2012

(define (A079998 n) (if (zero? (modulo n 5)) 1 0)) ;; Antti Karttunen, Dec 21 2017

Recurrence: a(n) = a(n-5). G.f.: -1/(x^5 - 1).
a(n) = 1 - A011558(n); a(A008587(n)) = 1; a(A047201(n)) = 0. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Nov 30 2009
a(n) = floor(1/2*cos(2*n*Pi/5) + 1/2). - Gary Detlefs, May 16 2011
a(n) = floor(n/5) - floor((n-1)/5). - Tani Akinari, Oct 21 2012
a(n) = binomial(n - 1, 4) mod 5. - Wesley Ivan Hurt, Oct 06 2014

More terms from Antti Karttunen, Dec 21 2017

A079979 Characteristic function of multiples of six.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1

Offset: 0

Vladimir Baltic, Feb 17 2003

Period 6: repeat [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0].
a(n)=1 if n=6k, a(n)=0 otherwise.
Decimal expansion of 1/999999.
Number of permutations satisfying -k <= p(i)-i <= r and p(i)-i not in I, i=1..n, with k=3, r=3, I={-2,-1,0,1,2}.
Also, number of permutations satisfying -k <= p(i)-i <= r and p(i)-i not in I, i=1..n, with k=1, r=5, I={0,1,2,3,4}.
a(n) is also the number of partitions of n such that each part is six (a(0)=1 because the empty partition has no parts to test equality with six). Hence a(n) is also the number of 2-regular graphs on n vertices with each part having girth exactly six. - Jason Kimberley, Oct 10 2011
This sequence is the Euler transformation of A185016. - Jason Kimberley, Oct 10 2011

D. H. Lehmer, Permutations with strongly restricted displacements. Combinatorial theory and its applications, II (Proc. Colloq., Balatonfured, 1969), pp. 755-770. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1970.

Antti Karttunen, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..65538
Vladimir Baltic, On the number of certain types of strongly restricted permutations, Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics Vol. 4, No 1 (April, 2010), 119-135
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,0,0,0,0,1).
Index entries for characteristic functions

Cf. A002524-A002529, A010875, A072827, A072850-A072856, A079955-A080014, A097325, A122841.

Characteristic function of multiples of g: A000007 (g=0), A000012 (g=1), A059841 (g=2), A079978 (g=3), A121262 (g=4), A079998 (g=5), this sequence (g=6), A082784 (g=7).

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A079979 := func; [A079979:n in [0..59]];  // Jason Kimberley, Oct 10 2011

PadRight[{},120,{1,0,0,0,0,0}] (* Harvey P. Dale, Feb 19 2013 *)

a(n)=!(n%6) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Oct 10 2011

(define (A079979 n) (if (zero? (modulo n 6)) 1 0)) ;; Antti Karttunen, Dec 22 2017

a(n) = a(n-6).
G.f.: 1/(1-x^6).
a(n) = floor((1/2)*cos(n*Pi/3) + 1/2). - Gary Detlefs, May 16 2011
a(n) = floor(n/6) - floor((n-1)/6). - Tani Akinari, Oct 23 2012
a(n) = (((((v^n - w^n)^2)*(2 - (-1)^n)*(w^(2*n) + w^n - 3))^2 - 144)^2)/20736, where w = (-1+i*sqrt(3))/2, v = (1+i*sqrt(3))/2. - Bogart B. Strauss, Sep 20 2013
E.g.f.: (2*cos(sqrt(3)*x/2)*cosh(x/2) + cosh(x))/3. - Vaclav Kotesovec, Feb 15 2015

More terms from Antti Karttunen, Dec 22 2017

A306209 Number A(n,k) of permutations of [n] within distance k of a fixed permutation; square array A(n,k), n>=0, k>=0, read by antidiagonals.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 2, 6, 5, 1, 1, 1, 2, 6, 14, 8, 1, 1, 1, 2, 6, 24, 31, 13, 1, 1, 1, 2, 6, 24, 78, 73, 21, 1, 1, 1, 2, 6, 24, 120, 230, 172, 34, 1, 1, 1, 2, 6, 24, 120, 504, 675, 400, 55, 1, 1, 1, 2, 6, 24, 120, 720, 1902, 2069, 932, 89, 1, 1, 1, 2, 6, 24, 120, 720, 3720, 6902, 6404, 2177, 144, 1

Offset: 0

Alois P. Heinz, Jan 29 2019

A(n,k) counts permutations p of [n] such that |p(j)-j| <= k for all j in [n].

			A(4,1) = 5: 1234, 1243, 1324, 2134, 2143.
A(5,2) = 31: 12345, 12354, 12435, 12453, 12534, 12543, 13245, 13254, 13425, 13524, 14235, 14253, 14325, 14523, 21345, 21354, 21435, 21453, 21534, 21543, 23145, 23154, 24135, 24153, 31245, 31254, 31425, 31524, 32145, 32154, 34125.
Square array A(n,k) begins:
  1,  1,   1,    1,    1,     1,     1,     1,     1, ...
  1,  1,   1,    1,    1,     1,     1,     1,     1, ...
  1,  2,   2,    2,    2,     2,     2,     2,     2, ...
  1,  3,   6,    6,    6,     6,     6,     6,     6, ...
  1,  5,  14,   24,   24,    24,    24,    24,    24, ...
  1,  8,  31,   78,  120,   120,   120,   120,   120, ...
  1, 13,  73,  230,  504,   720,   720,   720,   720, ...
  1, 21, 172,  675, 1902,  3720,  5040,  5040,  5040, ...
  1, 34, 400, 2069, 6902, 17304, 30960, 40320, 40320, ...

Alois P. Heinz, Antidiagonals n = 0..36, flattened
Torleiv Kløve, Spheres of Permutations under the Infinity Norm - Permutations with limited displacement, Reports in Informatics, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway, no. 376, November 2008.
Torleiv Kløve, Generating functions for the number of permutations with limited displacement, Electron. J. Combin., 16 (2009), #R104.

Columns k=0..10 give: A000012, A000045(n+1), A002524, A002526, A072856, A154654, A154655, A154656, A154657, A154658, A154659.
Rows n=1-2 give: A000012, A040000.
Main diagonal gives A000142.
A(2n,n) gives A048163(n+1).
A(2n+1,n) gives A092552(n+1).
A(n,floor(n/2)) gives A306267.
A(n+2,n) gives A001564.
Cf. A130152.

A[0, _] = 1;
A[n_ /; n > 0, k_] := A[n, k] = Permanent[Table[If[Abs[i - j] <= k, 1, 0], {i, 1, n}, {j, 1, n}]];
Table[A[n - k, k], {n, 0, 12}, {k, n, 0, -1 }] // Flatten (* Jean-François Alcover, Oct 18 2021, after Alois P. Heinz in A130152 *)

A(n,k) = Sum_{j=0..k} A130152(n,j) for n > 0, A(0,k) = 1.

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A079978 Characteristic function of multiples of three.

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A003269 a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-4) with a(0) = 0, a(1) = a(2) = a(3) = 1.

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A002524 Number of permutations of length n within distance 2 of a fixed permutation.

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A072827 Number of permutations satisfying i-2<=p(i)<=i+3, i=1..n.

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A072850 Number of permutations satisfying i-2<=p(i)<=i+4, i=1..n.

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A080014 Number of permutations satisfying -k<=p(i)-i<=r and p(i)-i not in I, i=1..n, with k=2, r=2, I={1}.

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A079955 Number of permutations satisfying -k<=p(i)-i<=r and p(i)-i not in I, i=1..n, with k=1, r=5, I={0,2,3}.

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