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%I A180847 #24 Sep 01 2025 11:22:10 %S A180847 0,1,31,853,23095,623821,16844191,454797253,12279542215,331547705341, %T A180847 8951788306351,241698285320053,6525853707835735,176198050128342061, %U A180847 4757347353532344511,128448378545641737253,3468106220733400647655 %N A180847 a(n) = (27^n-4^n)/23. %C A180847 For n>0, a(n) appears in several triangle sums of Nicomachus' table A036561, i.e. Ze1(2*n), Ze1(2*n+1)/2; Ze4(3*n), Ze4(3*n+1)/3 and Ze4(3*n+2)/9. See A180662 for information about these zebra and other chess sums. %H A180847 <a href="/index/Rec#order_02">Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (31,-108). %F A180847 a(n) = (27^n-4^n)/23. %F A180847 G.f.: x/((27*x-1)*(4*x-1)). %F A180847 a(0)=0, a(1)=1, a(n) = 31*a(n-1)-108*a(n-2). - _Harvey P. Dale_, Sep 01 2011 %t A180847 Table[(27^n-4^n)/23,{n,0,20}] (* or *) LinearRecurrence[{31,-108},{0,1},20] (* _Harvey P. Dale_, Sep 01 2011 *) %o A180847 (PARI) a(n)=(27^n-4^n)/23 \\ _Charles R Greathouse IV_, Oct 07 2015 %Y A180847 Cf. A016153, A016140, A180844, A180845, A180846, A180847, A016185. %K A180847 easy,nonn,changed %O A180847 0,3 %A A180847 _Johannes W. Meijer_, Sep 21 2010