help needed counting rooted trees
Max
relf at unn.ac.ru
Wed Aug 31 00:33:30 CEST 2005
It's easy to see that the number of subtrees satisfies a recurrence:
s(n+1) = 1 + 2*s(n) + s(n)^2 = (1+s(n))^2
So the sequence is
1 4 25 676 458329 210066388900 44127887745906175987801 1947270476915296449559703445493848930452791204
that is A004019, not A007830.
Max
N. J. A. Sloane wrote:
> Take the standard rooted binary tree of depth n, with
> 2^(n+1) - 1 labeled nodes. Here is a poor picture of
> the tree of depth 3.
>
> o
> / \
> / \
> o o
> / \ / \
> o o o o
> / \ / \ / \ / \
> o o o o o o o o
>
> My question is, how many rooted subtrees are there?
> (All rooted at the original root, of course.)
>
> For n = 1 the 4 subtrees are:
> o o o o
> / \ / \
> o o o o
>
> I get:
>
> n: 0 1 2
> #: 1 4 25
>
> Is this A007830?
>
> NJAS
>
>
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