OFFSET
1,3
LINKS
Ofer Yifrach-Stav, Fast and Private Pool Testing and Contributions to Experimental Mathematics, Doctoral thesis, École normale supérieure (Paris, France), HAL Science [math.cs] 2024, Art. No. tel-04513104. See p. 222.
FORMULA
a(n+1) = (2*n)!*(2*G*binomial(2*n, n)/4^n - Integral_{t=0..oo} t/cosh(t)^(2*n+1) dt) where G = 0.915965594... is Catalan's constant.
a(n) = (2*n-4)! + (2*n-3)^2*a(n-1) for n = 2, 3, ... with a(1) = 0. - Johannes W. Meijer, May 24 2009
MATHEMATICA
RecurrenceTable[{a[1]==0, a[2]==1, a[n]==(8(n-2)^2+2(n-2)+1)a[n-1]- 2(n-2)(2(n-2)-1)^3 a[n-2]}, a, {n, 20}] (* Harvey P. Dale, May 06 2013 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n)=if(n<3, (n+1)%2, (8*(n-2)^2+2*(n-2)+1)*a(n-1)-2*(n-2)*(2*(n-2)-1)^3*a(n-2)) \\ Benoit Cloitre, Dec 02 2005
CROSSREFS
Cf. A006752.
For n >= 1, equals the first left hand column of the Beta triangle A160480. The second left hand column is A160482. - Johannes W. Meijer, May 24 2009
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Benoit Cloitre, Dec 18 2004
STATUS
approved