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- From: niall@nmsu.edu (Niall Graham)
- Subject: Re: Calling all Generatingfunctionologists
- In-Reply-To: niall@nmsu.edu's message of Mon, 20 Jul 1992 23:19:20 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:04:50 GMT
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- Corrected Version (with thanks to Dan Hoey):
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- The following innocuous looking recurrence generates
- sequence 300 in Sloane (1 1 1 2 3 6 11 24 47 103 ...):
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- c(1) = 1
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- [n/2]
- c(n) = sum c(i)c(n-i) where [n/2] is the FLOOR of n/2.
- i=1 (sum is over partitions of n into 2 parts)
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- As far as I know, no generating function has been found for this
- sequence, (as the ref in Sloane doesn't offer one).
- Setting
- C(x) = sum c(n)x^n and S(x) = sum c(n)^2 x^2n
- ****
- we now seek a solution to S = C(2-C).
- Any takers?
-
- Niall Graham This isn't homework but I'd be delighted
- nmg@c3.lanl.gov if some brave soul would assign it as such :-).
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