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%I A074797 #19 Aug 21 2024 12:27:14 %S A074797 1,2,8,19,56,147,404,1082,2954,8001,21865,59759,164085,451465,1246358, %T A074797 3448876,9569376,26611517,74172493,207159274,579724677,1625287220, %U A074797 4564461309,12839597611,36172421770,102053738981,288317817804,815591326704,2309951078955 %N A074797 a(n) = A000081(n+1) - 2*A000081(n). %C A074797 Counts exceptional non-overlapping circles. These circles are exceptional because they are neither generated by encircling any case at level n-1 nor do they result from appending an external circle to any case at level n-1. When n=4 the case is (())(()). %H A074797 Alois P. Heinz, <a href="/A074797/b074797.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 4..1000</a> %e A074797 a(8) = 56 because we can write A000081(9) - 2*A000081(8) = 286 - 2*115. %e A074797 a(8) also = 56 because we know that 8=6+2=5+3=4+4=4+2+2=3+3+2=2+2+2+2 and these partitions contribute 20*1 + 9*2 + 4*5/2 + 4 + 3 + 1 cases. %p A074797 with(numtheory): %p A074797 b:= proc(n) option remember; local d, j; `if` (n<2, n, %p A074797 (add(add(d*b(d), d=divisors(j)) *b(n-j), j=1..n-1))/ (n-1)) %p A074797 end: %p A074797 a:= n-> b(n+1)-2*b(n): %p A074797 seq(a(n), n=4..50); # _Alois P. Heinz_, May 16 2013 %t A074797 a81[1] = 1; a81[n_] := a81[n] = Sum[a81[n-k]*DivisorSum[k, #*a81[#]&], {k, 1, n-1}]/(n-1); a[n_] := a81[n+1] - 2*a81[n]; Table[a[n], {n, 4, 50}] (* _Jean-François Alcover_, Jan 08 2016 *) %Y A074797 Cf. A000081. %K A074797 easy,nonn %O A074797 4,2 %A A074797 _Alford Arnold_, Sep 07 2002 %E A074797 More terms from _Sascha Kurz_, Feb 10 2003