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A005173 Number of trees of subsets of an n-set.
(Formerly M4844)
2
0, 1, 12, 61, 240, 841, 2772, 8821, 27480, 84481, 257532, 780781, 2358720, 7108921, 21392292, 64307941, 193185960, 580082161, 1741295052, 5225982301, 15682141200, 47054812201, 141181213812, 423577195861, 1270798696440 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
1,3
REFERENCES
F. R. McMorris and T. Zaslavsky, The number of cladistic characters, Math. Biosciences, 54 (1981), 3-10.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
F. R. McMorris and T. Zaslavsky, The number of cladistic characters, Math. Biosciences, 54 (1981), 3-10. [Annotated scanned copy]
Simon Plouffe, Approximations de séries génératrices et quelques conjectures, Dissertation, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1992; arXiv:0911.4975 [math.NT], 2009.
Simon Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions, Appendix to Thesis, Montreal, 1992.
FORMULA
G.f.: x*(1 + 6*x) / ((1 - x)*(1 - 2*x)*(1 - 3*x)). [corrected by Ray Chandler, Jun 26 2023]
First differences give A003063, 3^(n-1) - 2^n.
MAPLE
A005173:=-z*(1+6*z)/(z-1)/(3*z-1)/(2*z-1); # conjectured by Simon Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation
MATHEMATICA
CoefficientList[Series[x (1+6 x)/(1-x)/(1-2 x)/(1-3 x), {x, 0, 30}], x] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jul 03 2023 *)
CROSSREFS
Cf. A003063.
Sequence in context: A240002 A114241 A127766 * A196144 A294682 A177677
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Larry Reeves (larryr(AT)acm.org), Feb 06 2001
STATUS
approved

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