A246936 Number of partitions of n into 4 sorts of parts.

1, 4, 20, 84, 356, 1444, 5876, 23604, 94852, 379908, 1521492, 6088148, 24360548, 97451492, 389838708, 1559394356, 6237711300, 24951007620, 99804576340, 399218968084, 1596878076132, 6387515000292, 25550068873908, 102200286367156, 408801181153476

Offset: 0

Author

Alois P. Heinz, Sep 08 2014

Keywords

• nonn

Links

• Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000

Crossrefs

Column k=4 of A246935.

Programs

Maple

b:= proc(n, i) option remember; `if`(n=0, 1, `if`(i<1, 0,
      b(n, i-1) +`if`(i>n, 0, 4*b(n-i, i))))
    end:
a:= n-> b(n$2):
seq(a(n), n=0..25);

Mathematica

(O[x]^20 - 3/QPochhammer[4, x])[[3]] (* Vladimir Reshetnikov, Nov 20 2015 *)
b[n_, i_] := b[n, i] = If[n==0, 1, If[i<1, 0, b[n, i-1]+If[i>n, 0, 4 b[n-i, i]]]];
a[n_] := b[n, n];
a /@ Range[0, 25] (* Jean-François Alcover, Dec 05 2020, after Alois P. Heinz *)

Formula

G.f.: Product_{i>=1} 1/(1-4*x^i).

a(n) ~ c * 4^n, where c = Product_{k>=1} 1/(1-1/4^k) = A065446 * A132020 = 1.4523536424495970158347... . - Vaclav Kotesovec, Mar 19 2015

G.f.: Sum_{i>=0} 4^i*x^i/Product_{j=1..i} (1 - x^j). - Ilya Gutkovskiy, Apr 12 2018