a puxxle

[Graeme McRae]

Or maybe they were looking for A14148+1, with a leading 1, and they just 
goofed the last two terms of the sequence.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert G. Wilson v" <rgwv at rgwv.com>
To: "Floor en Lyanne van Lamoen" <fvanlamoen at planet.nl>
Cc: <seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: a puxxle


> Everyone,
>
> I find it difficult to believe that a order three recursion
> is what the 'feds' were after. Might I suggest that what they wanted
> was A079583: a(0)=1 a(n)=2*a(n-1)+n.
>
> Bob.
>
>
> Floor en Lyanne van Lamoen wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>>>:%S A117713 1,3,8,18,__,89,189
>>>>:%N A117713 This sequence was a question on a civil service test a 
>>>>friend