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A006678
Number of planted binary phylogenetic trees with n labels.
(Formerly M4232)
1
0, 1, 1, 6, 39, 390, 4815, 73080, 1304415, 26847450, 625528575, 16279193700, 468022452975, 14731683916950, 503880434632575, 18609309606888000, 738057377647965375, 31286068076704691250, 1411602439003747365375, 67543694966494692445500, 3416288904242387117319375
OFFSET
0,4
REFERENCES
Foulds, L. R.; Robinson, R. W. Enumeration of binary phylogenetic trees. Combinatorial mathematics, VIII (Geelong, 1980), pp. 187-202, Lecture Notes in Math., 884, Springer, Berlin-New York, 1981. Math. Rev. 83a:05071.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
L. R. Foulds and R. W. Robinson, Enumeration of binary phylogenetic trees, pp. 187-202, Lecture Notes in Math., 884, Springer, Berlin-New York, 1981. (Annotated scanned copy)
FORMULA
E.g.f.: -(-1+(1-2*x-2*x^2)^(1/2))/(1+x), Simon Plouffe in his Master's Thesis, Uqam 1992.
a(n) ~ sqrt(6-2*sqrt(3)) * (1+sqrt(3))^(n-1) * n^(n-1) / exp(n). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Oct 01 2013
MATHEMATICA
CoefficientList[Series[-(-1+(1-2*x-2*x^2)^(1/2))/(1+x), {x, 0, 20}], x]* Range[0, 20]! (* Vaclav Kotesovec, Oct 01 2013 *)
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A308861 A124577 A352839 * A252761 A145709 A280006
KEYWORD
nonn
STATUS
approved