[seqfan] Re: Two triangles of numbers needing formulas, A331430 and A331431.

[Neil Sloane]

In the end there is a simple formula for A331431:
T(n,k) = (-1)^(n+k)*(n+k+1)!/((k!)^2*(n-k)!), for n >= k >= 0.

Thank you, Georg and Peter, for correcting the entries!

Best regards
Neil

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On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 6:16 AM Georg.Fischer <georg.fischer at t-online.de>
wrote:

> In A331433 I also read a(5)=210 instead of 240, and
> in A331434 I read a(1)=30,
> which yields the generating functions:
>     A331433 6/(1+x)^4
>     A331434 30/(1+x)^6
> and this can be continued into the following conjectures:
>     Col. 3: 140/(1+x)^8
>     Col. 4: 630/(1+x)^10
>     Col. 5: 2772/(1+x)^12 -> 2772, -33264, 216216, -1009008, ...
> The last diagonal of A331431 should read
> 1, 6, *30*, 140, 630, *2772*, 12012, 51480,
> what makes it identical to A002457.
> I think there are triangle specialists out there
> who can easily melt this into a bivariate g.f. for A331431
> (Ser's Table III).
>
> Regards - Georg
>
>
> Am 18.01.2020 um 01:50 schrieb Neil Sloane:
> > Bob Selcoe suggested that in A331430 the entry -240 should really be
> -210,
> > and looking at the copy with a magnifying glass i see he is right
> >
> > and that makes column 2 equal to A107394,
> > and generalizing, it becomes clear that column k is simply
> C(n,k)*C(n+k,k)
> >
> > So that solves Ser's Table I
> >
> > Thank you, Bob!
> >
> > I will make the necessary changes to the entries
> >
> > Best regards
> > Neil
> >
> > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation.
> > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA.
> > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
> > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com
> > Email: njasloane at gmail.com
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 6:30 PM Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear SeqFans,
> >> I was told that one of the online bulletin boards mentioned a sequence
> in
> >> the OEIS that was taken from the book   J. Ser, Les Calculs Formels des
> >> Séries de Factorielles. Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1933.
> >>
> >> There are three triangles of integers on pages 92 and 93 of Ser, Tables
> I,
> >> III, and IV. Yesterday I managed to reverse engineer Table IV, and this
> is
> >> now A331432.  In that entry you can see scans of many pages that I made
> in
> >> the Brown University library in about 1970.
> >>
> >> The trouble is, the scans were based on a "photocopy" I made in 1970  on
> >> an ancient copying machine, and both the photocopy and the scans of the
> >> photocopy are essentially illegible.
> >>
> >> I have struggled with trying to explain Tables I and III, but I have not
> >> been able to crack them.  So I created entries for them, A331430 and
> >> A331431, hoping that someone will be able to explain them.
> >>
> >> The sections of Ser's book where they are defined are included in the
> >> scans, so someone who knows French, has a strong magnifying glass,  and
> is
> >> good at guessing may be able to read them
> >>
> >> Summary: Ser's table IV has been solved and is A331432. But what are
> >> Tables I and III,  A331430 and A331431?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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