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A003095 a(n) = a(n-1)^2 + 1 for n >= 1, with a(0) = 0.

0, 1, 2, 5, 26, 677, 458330, 210066388901, 44127887745906175987802, 1947270476915296449559703445493848930452791205, 3791862310265926082868235028027893277370233152247388584761734150717768254410341175325352026

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane and Richard Stanley

Number of binary trees of height less than or equal to n. [Corrected by Orson R. L. Peters, Jan 03 2020]
The rightmost digits cycle (0,1,2,5,6,7,0,1,2,5,6,7,...). - Jonathan Vos Post, Jul 21 2005
Apart from the initial term, a subsequence of A008318. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jan 17 2008
Partial sums of A001699. - Jonathan Vos Post, Feb 17 2010
Corresponds to the second and second last diagonals of A119687. - John M. Campbell, Jul 25 2011
This is a divisibility sequence. - Michael Somos, Jan 01 2013
Sum_{n>=1} 1/a(n) = 1.739940825174794649210636285335916041018367182486941... . - Vaclav Kotesovec, Jan 30 2015
From Vladimir Vesic, Oct 03 2015: (Start)
Forming Herbrand's domains of formula: (∃x)(∀y)(∀z)(∃k)(P(x)∨Q(y)∧R(k))
where: x->a
       k->f(y,z)
we get:
  H0 = {a}
  H1 = {a, f(a,a)}
  H2 = {a, f(a,a), f(a,f(a,a)), f(f(a,a),a), f(f(a,a),f(a,a))}
  ...
The number of elements in each domain follows this sequence.
(End)
It is an open question whether or not this sequence satisfies Benford's law [Berger-Hill, 2017] - N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 07 2017
This is a strong divisibility sequence; see A329429. - Clark Kimberling, Nov 13 2019
From Peter Bala, Oct 31 2022: (Start)
Let k be a positive integer. Clearly, the sequence obtained by reducing a(n) modulo k is eventually periodic. Conjectures:
1) The sequence obtained by reducing a(n) modulo 2^k is eventually periodic with period 2.
2) The sequence obtained by reducing a(n) modulo 10^k is eventually periodic with period 6 (the case k = 1 is noted above).
3) The sequence obtained by reducing a(n) modulo 20^k is eventually periodic with period 6.
4) For n >= floor(k/2) and for 1 <= i <= 6, the value of a(6*n+i) mod 10^k is a constant independent of n. The digits of these 6 constant integers, when read from right to left, are the first k digits of the 10-adic numbers A318135 (i = 1), A318136 (i = 2), A318137 (i = 3), A318138 (i = 4), A318139 (i = 5) and A318140 (i = 6), respectively. An example is given below.
  n      a(6*n+1) mod 10^11
1           10066388901
2           72084948901
3           67988948901
4           61588948901
5           01588948901
6           01588948901
7           01588948901
...             ...
A318135 begins 1, 0, 9, 8, 4, 9, 8, 8, 5, 1, 0, 2, .... (End)

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R. Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind, Oxford, 1989, p. 122.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..13
A. V. Aho and N. J. A. Sloane, Some doubly exponential sequences, Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1973), pp. 429-437.
A. V. Aho and N. J. A. Sloane, Some doubly exponential sequences, Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1973), pp. 429-437 (original plus references that F.Q. forgot to include - see last page!)
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Wikipedia, Herbrand Structure
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Index entries for sequences of form a(n+1)=a(n)^2 + ...
Index to divisibility sequences
Index entries for sequences related to Benford's law

Cf. A001699, A004019, A038044, A056207, A076949, A077496, A091980, A143848.
Cf. A143849, A213437, A247981, A248218, A248219, A318135, A318136, A318137.
Cf. A318138, A318139, A318140, A355108.
Cf. A137560, which enumerates binary trees of height less than n and exactly j leaf nodes. - Robert Munafo, Nov 03 2009

function A003095(n)
  if n eq 0 then return 0;
  else return 1 + A003095(n-1)^2;
  end if; return A003095;
end function;
[A003095(n): n in [0..12]]; // G. C. Greubel, Nov 29 2022

a:= proc(n) option remember; `if`(n=0, 0, a(n-1)^2+1) end:
seq(a(n), n=0..10);  # Alois P. Heinz, Jul 11 2019

NestList[#^2+1&,0,10] (* Harvey P. Dale, Dec 17 2010 *)

{a(n) = if( n<1, 0, 1 + a(n-1)^2)}; /* Michael Somos, Jan 01 2013 */

def A003095(n): return 0 if (n==0) else 1 + A003095(n-1)^2
[A003095(n) for n in range(13)] # G. C. Greubel, Nov 29 2022

a(n) = B_{n-1}(1) where B_n(x) = 1 + x*B_{n-1}(x)^2 is the generating function of trees of height <= n.
a(n) is asymptotic to c^(2^n) where c=1.2259024435287485386279474959130085213... (see A076949). - Benoit Cloitre, Nov 27 2002
c = b^(1/4) where b is the constant in Bottomley's formula in A004019. a(n) appears very asymptotic to c^(2^n) - Sum_{k>=1} A088674(k)/(2*c^(2^n))^(2*k-1). - Gerald McGarvey, Nov 17 2007
a(n) = Sum_{i=1..n} A001699(i). - Jonathan Vos Post, Feb 17 2010
G.f. = x + 2*x^2 + 5*x^3 + 26*x^4 + 677*x^5 + 458330*x^6 + 210066388901*x^7 + ... . - Michael Somos, Jan 01 2013
a(2n) mod 2 = 0 ; a(2n+1) mod 2 = 1. - Altug Alkan, Oct 04 2015
a(n) + a(n-1) = A213437(n). - Peter Bala, Feb 03 2017
0 = a(n)^2*(+a(n+1) + a(n+2)) + a(n+1)^2*(-a(n+1) - a(n+2) - a(n+3)) + a(n+2)^3 for all n>=0. - Michael Somos, Feb 10 2017
a(n) = A091980(2^(n-1)) for n > 0. - Alois P. Heinz, Jul 11 2019

Additional comments from Cyril Banderier, Jun 05 2000
Minor edits by Vaclav Kotesovec, Oct 04 2014
Initial term clarified by Clark Kimberling, Nov 13 2019

A001699 Number of binary trees of height n; or products (ways to insert parentheses) of height n when multiplication is non-commutative and non-associative.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 3, 21, 651, 457653, 210065930571, 44127887745696109598901, 1947270476915296449559659317606103024276803403, 3791862310265926082868235028027893277370233150300118107846437701158064808916492244872560821

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane and Jeffrey Shallit

Approaches 1.5028368...^(2^n), see A077496. Row sums of A065329 as square array. - Henry Bottomley, Oct 29 2001. Also row sum of square array A073345 (AK).

			G.f. = 1 + x + 3*x^2 + 21*x^3 + 651*x^4 + 457653*x^5 + ... - _Michael Somos_, Jun 02 2019

Miklos Bona, editor, Handbook of Enumerative Combinatorics, CRC Press, 2015, page 307.
I. M. H. Etherington, On non-associative combinations, Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, 59 (Part 2, 1938-39), 153-162.
I. M. H. Etherington, Some problems of non-associative combinations (I), Edinburgh Math. Notes, 32 (1940), pp. i-vi. Part II is by A. Erdelyi and I. M. H. Etherington, and is on pages vii-xiv of the same issue.
T. K. Moon, Enumerations of binary trees, types of trees and the number of reversible variable length codes, submitted to Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2000.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

David Wasserman, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..12 [Shortened file because terms grow rapidly: see Wasserman link below for an additional term]
A. V. Aho and N. J. A. Sloane, Some doubly exponential sequences, Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1973), pp. 429-437.
A. V. Aho and N. J. A. Sloane, Some doubly exponential sequences, Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1973), pp. 429-437 (original plus references that F.Q. forgot to include - see last page!)
Mayfawny Bergmann, Efficiency of Lossless Compression of a Binary Tree via its Minimal Directed Acyclic Graph Representation. Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal: Vol. 15 : Iss. 2, Article 1. (2014).
Henry Bottomley, Illustration of initial terms
I. M. H. Etherington, Non-associate powers and a functional equation, Math. Gaz. 21 (1937), 36-39; addendum 21 (1937), 153.
I. M. H. Etherington, On non-associative combinations, Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, 59 (Part 2, 1938-39), 153-162. [Annotated scanned copy]
Samuele Giraudo, The combinator M and the Mockingbird lattice, arXiv:2204.03586 [math.CO], 2022.
Claude Lenormand, Arbres et permutations II, see p. 6
David E. Narváez, Proof of polynomial recursive equation of order 2, Jun 05 2025.
David Wasserman, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..13
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Binary Tree
Index entries for "core" sequences
Index entries for sequences related to rooted trees
Index entries for sequences related to trees
Index entries for sequences related to parenthesizing
Index entries for sequences of form a(n+1)=a(n)^2 + ...

Row sums of A065329.
Column sums of A335919, A335920.
Cf. A002658, A056207, A002449, A003095.
Cf. A004019, A077496, A076949, A213437.

s := proc(n) local i,j,ans; ans := [ 1 ]; for i to n do ans := [ op(ans),2*(add(j,j=ans)-ans[ i ])*ans[ i ]+ans[ i ]^2 ] od; RETURN(ans); end; s(10);

a[0] = 1; a[n_] := a[n] = 2*a[n-1]*Sum[a[k], {k, 0, n-2}] + a[n-1]^2; Table[a[n], {n, 0, 9}] (* Jean-François Alcover, May 16 2012 *)
a[ n_] := If[ n < 2, Boole[n >= 0], With[{u = a[n - 1], v = a[n - 2]}, u (u + v + u/v)]]; (* Michael Somos, Jun 02 2019 *)

{a(n) = if( n<=1, n>=0, a(n-1) * (a(n-1) + a(n-2) + a(n-1) / a(n-2)))}; /* Michael Somos, 2000 */

from functools import lru_cache
@lru_cache(maxsize=None)
def a(n): return 1 if n <= 1 else a(n-1) * (a(n-1) + a(n-2) + a(n-1)//a(n-2))
print([a(n) for n in range(10)]) # Michael S. Branicky, Nov 10 2022 after Michael Somos

a(n+1) = 2*a(n)*(a(0) + ... + a(n-1)) + a(n)^2.
a(n+1) = a(n)^2 + a(n) + a(n)*sqrt(4*a(n)-3), if n > 0.
a(n) = A003095(n+1) - A003095(n) = A003095(n)^2 - A003095(n) + 1. - Henry Bottomley, Apr 26 2001; offset of LHS corrected by Anindya Bhattacharyya, Jun 21 2013
a(n) = A059826(A003095(n-1)).
From Peter Bala, Feb 03 2017: (Start)
a(n) = Product_{k = 1..n} A213437(k).
a(n) + a(n-1) = A213437(n+1) - A213437(n). (End)
a(n) = -a(n-2)^3 + a(n-1)^2 + 3*a(n-1)*a(n-2) + 2*a(n-2)^2 + 2*a(n-1) - 4*a(n-2) (see Narváez link for proof). - Boštjan Gec, Oct 10 2024

Minor edits by Vaclav Kotesovec, Oct 04 2014

A076949 Decimal expansion of c, the constant such that lim n -> infinity A003095(n)/c^(2^n) = 1.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 2, 5, 9, 0, 2, 4, 4, 3, 5, 2, 8, 7, 4, 8, 5, 3, 8, 6, 2, 7, 9, 4, 7, 4, 9, 5, 9, 1, 3, 0, 0, 8, 5, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 2, 9, 3, 2, 0, 9, 6, 9, 6, 6, 1, 2, 8, 2, 3, 1, 7, 7, 0, 0, 9, 0, 7, 2, 5, 5, 2, 3, 3, 9, 9, 7, 5, 2, 6, 5, 7, 3, 8, 0, 2, 1, 6, 7, 9, 1, 5, 4, 5, 2, 0, 4, 9, 9, 2, 8, 4, 2, 9

Offset: 1

Benoit Cloitre, Nov 27 2002

			1.2259024435287485386279474959130085213212293209696612823177009072552339975...

G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
Stephan Wagner, Volker Ziegler, Irrationality of growth constants associated with polynomial recursions, arXiv:2004.09353 [math.NT], 2020.

Cf. A003095, A077496, A213437, A258112, A258113.

function A003095(n)
  if n eq 0 then return 0;
  else return 1 + A003095(n-1)^2;
  end if; return A003095;
end function;
function S(n)
  if n eq 1 then return Log(2)/2;
  else return S(n-1) + Log(1 + 1/A003095(n)^2)/2^n;
  end if; return S;
end function;
SetDefaultRealField(RealField(120)); Exp(S(12)/2); // G. C. Greubel, Nov 29 2022

A003095[n_]:= A003095[n]= If[n==0, 0, 1 + A003095[n-1]^2];
S[n_]:= S[n]= If[n==1, Log[2]/2, S[n-1] + Log[1 + 1/A003095[n]^2]/2^n];
RealDigits[Exp[S[13]/2], 10, 120][[1]] (* G. C. Greubel, Nov 29 2022 *)

@CachedFunction
def A003095(n): return 0 if (n==0) else 1 + A003095(n-1)^2
@CachedFunction
def S(n): return log(2)/2 if (n==1) else S(n-1) + log(1 + 1/(A003095(n))^2)/2^n
numerical_approx( exp(S(12)/2), digits=120) # G. C. Greubel, Nov 29 2022

Equals sqrt(A077496). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Dec 17 2014

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A214635 Period of A213437 mod n.

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A214636 A213437 becomes periodic mod n starting at this position.

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A003095 a(n) = a(n-1)^2 + 1 for n >= 1, with a(0) = 0.

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A001699 Number of binary trees of height n; or products (ways to insert parentheses) of height n when multiplication is non-commutative and non-associative.

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A076949 Decimal expansion of c, the constant such that lim n -> infinity A003095(n)/c^(2^n) = 1.

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