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Nomination of Polydivisible number for deletion

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Padovan sequence source for sum product identity

Hello. It looks like your 24 July 2005 edit to the Padovan sequence page added several identities, including

$\sum _{m=0}^{n}P(m)P(m+2)=P(n+2)P(n+3)-1.$

Can you tell me where you found that, or did you come up with it? I'd like to give an accurate citation in something I'm putting together.

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PS Please excuse the odd username; it must have been made by someone else using my common email address.

I have no idea where I got those identities from. They are not difficult to derive. For example

P(m+3)P(m+2)-P(m+2)P(m+1)=\left(P(m+3)-P(m+1)\right)P(m+2)=P(m)P(m+2)

\Rightarrow \sum _{m=0}^{n}P(m)P(m+2)=\sum _{m=0}^{n}\left(P(m+3)P(m+2)-P(m+2)P(m+1)\right)=P(n+3)P(n+2)-P(1)P(0)=P(n+3)P(n+2)-1

Gandalf61 (talk) 14:26, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Van Eck's sequence

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Nomination of Van Eck's sequence for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Language of mathematics

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Proposed deletion of Language of mathematics

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Request bibliographic reference

Hello Gandalf61,

I would like to know a bibliographic reference for a math formula. I found this formula on Wikipedia, but no reference is given.

It's the 2nd formula ( $A(n,k)$ is an Eulerian number):

\sum _{k=0}^{n-1}(-1)^{k}{\frac {A(n,k)}{\binom {n-1}{k}}}=0,{\text{  for  }}n>1

in the chapter entitled "Formulas involving alternating sums" on the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulerian_number

I've looked at lots of (very complicated...) articles, but there's nothing obvious about this formula. Handbooks of Mathematics, etc. nothing, nothing, nothing...!

I saw that you were one of the contributors to this page. Can you provide a reference?

Thank you. RoyBetthe (talk) 10:12, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]