A227906 Coins left after packing heart patterns (fixed orientation) into n X n coins.
2, 4, 4, 9, 6, 13, 8, 17, 10, 21, 12, 25, 14, 29, 16, 33, 18, 37, 20, 41, 22, 45, 24, 49, 26, 53, 28, 57, 30, 61, 32, 65, 34, 69, 36, 73, 38, 77, 40, 81, 42, 85, 44, 89, 46, 93, 48, 97, 50, 101, 52, 105, 54, 109, 56, 113, 58, 117, 60, 121
Offset: 2
Links
- Kival Ngaokrajang, Illustration of initial terms (U)
- Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,2,0,-1).
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Programs
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Mathematica
With[{nn=60},Join[{2,4},Riffle[Range[4,nn,2],Range[9,2nn+1,4]]]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Feb 11 2015 *)
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PARI
Vec(-x^2*(x^5-x^3-4*x-2)/((x-1)^2*(x+1)^2) + O(x^100)) \\ Colin Barker, Oct 30 2013
Formula
From Colin Barker, Oct 30 2013: (Start)
a(n) = (-1 + (-1)^n - (-3 + (-1)^n)*n)/2 for n>3.
a(n) = n for n>3 and even.
a(n) = 2*n-1 for n > 3 and odd.
a(n) = 2*a(n-2) - a(n-4) for n>7.
G.f.: -x^2*(x^5-x^3-4*x-2) / ((x-1)^2*(x+1)^2).(End)
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