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<a href="/index/Rec#order_04">Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (6, -13, 12, -4).
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a(2)=2, a(3)=8, a(4)=25, a(5)=67, a(n)=6*a(n-1)-13*a(n-2)+12*a(n-3)- 4*a(n-4). - Harvey P. Dale, Oct 23 2013
Table[(3n+4)2^(n-3)-(2n-1), {n, 2, 30}] (* or *) LinearRecurrence[ {6, -13, 12, -4}, {2, 8, 25, 67}, 30] (* Harvey P. Dale, Oct 23 2013 *)
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Harry J. Smith, <a href="/A066374/b066374.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 2,...,200</a>
(PARI) { for (n=2, 200, write("b066374.txt", n, " ", (3*n + 4)*2^(n -3 ) - (2*n - 1)) ) } [From __Harry J. Smith_, Feb 11 2010]
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G.f.: x^2*(2-4*x+3*x^2-3*x^3)/((1-x)^2*(1-2*x)^2). [Colin Barker, Apr 20 2012]
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(PARI) { for (n=2, 200, write("b066374.txt", n, " ", (3*n + 4)*2^(n -3 ) - (2*n - 1)) ) } [From _Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), _, Feb 11 2010]
_N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), _, Jan 04 2002