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A082267 Number of palindromes that use nonzero digits and have a digit sum of n.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 8, 8, 16, 16, 31, 31, 62, 62, 124, 124, 248, 248, 496, 496, 991, 991, 1980, 1980, 3956, 3956, 7904, 7904, 15792, 15792, 31553, 31553, 63044, 63044, 125964, 125964, 251680, 251680, 502864, 502864, 1004737, 1004737, 2007494, 2007494
Offset: 1

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Author

Amarnath Murthy, Apr 12 2003

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Comments

Consider the array in which the n-th row contains all the palindromes that use nonzero digits and have a digit sum of n:
1
2 11
3 111
4 22 121 1111
5 131 212 11111
6 33 141 222 11211 1221 2112 111111
...
a(n) = number of partitions of n into parts < 10 (single-digit nonzero parts) that can be arranged to form a palindrome.

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Programs

  • Maple
    seq(coeff(series(x*(1+2*x-x^9-x^10-x^19)/(1-2*x^2+x^20),x,n+1), x, n), n = 1 .. 42); # Muniru A Asiru, Dec 08 2018

Formula

a(1) = 1, a(2) = 2. For 2
Further remarks from Jonathan R. Love (japanada11(AT)yahoo.ca), Mar 08 2007: (Start) For 2
For n=10 or 11: Using the rules for 2
For 12
For 20: Including the terms subtracted in 12
For 21<=n: From this point on, all possible terms are 9(a(n-18))9 + 8(a(n-16))8 + 7(a(n-14))7 + 6(a(n-12))6 + 5(a(n-10))5 + 4(a(n-8))4 + 3(a(n-6))3 + 2(a(n-4))2 + 1(a(n-2))1. If a(n-20) were to be included, it would need to be (10)(a(n-20))(10) and 10s can't be included. So everything must subtract a(n-20) from the total of 2 * a(n-2). For example, a(24) = 3956 = 2 * a(22) - a(4). (End)
Let c(n,k) (1<=k<=n) = number of compositions of n into parts of size <= k (cf. A126198). Then a(n) = Sum_{i=0..floor(n/2)} c(n,9). This follows by consideration of the central term, which may be any of n, n-2, n-4, ..., n-2i, ...; the prefix is then a composition of i into parts of size <= 9. - N. J. A. Sloane Mar 09 2007
From Colin Barker, Feb 14 2013: (Start)
a(n) = 2*a(n-2) - a(n-20) for n > 20.
G.f.: x*(1+2*x-x^9-x^10-x^19) / (1-2*x^2+x^20). (End)

Extensions

Corrected and extended by Jonathan R. Love, Mar 08 2007