# Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences! http://oeis.org/ Search: id:a090283 Showing 1-1 of 1 %I A090283 #13 Mar 18 2017 09:54:19 %S A090283 3,4,4,3,2,1,1,2,2,1,1,2,3,4,4,3,4,3,2,1,1,2,3,4,3,4,4,3,2,1,1,2,2,1, %T A090283 1,2,3,4,4,3,4,3,2,1,1,2,3,4,3,4,4,3,2,1,1,2,2,1,1,2,3,4,4,3,4,3,2,1, %U A090283 1,2,3,4,3,4,4,3,2,1,1,2,2,1,1,2,3,4,4,3,4,3,2,1,1,2,3,4,3,4,4 %N A090283 "Plain Bob Minimus" in bell-ringing is a sequence of permutations p_1=(1,2,3,4), p_2=(2,1,4,3), .. which runs through all permutations of {1,2,3,4} with period 24; sequence gives position of bell 3 in n-th permutation. %H A090283 David Joyner, Application: Bell Ringing %H A090283 Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (1, 0, 0, -1, 1, 0, 0, -1, 1, 0, 0, -1, 1, 0, 0, -1, 1, 0, 0, -1, 1). %H A090283 Index entries for sequences related to bell ringing %F A090283 Period 24. %F A090283 From _Chai Wah Wu_, Jul 17 2016: (Start) %F A090283 a(n) = a(n-1) - a(n-4) + a(n-5) - a(n-8) + a(n-9) - a(n-12) + a(n-13) - a(n-16) + a(n-17) - a(n-20) + a(n-21) for n > 21. %F A090283 G.f.: x*(-4*x^20 + x^19 + x^18 + x^17 - 4*x^16 - 3*x^12 - x^11 + x^9 - 2*x^8 - 2*x^4 + x^3 - x - 3)/((x - 1)*(x^4 + 1)*(x^2 - x + 1)*(x^2 + x + 1)*(x^4 - x^2 + 1)*(x^8 - x^4 + 1)). (End) %Y A090283 Cf. A090277-A090284. %K A090283 nonn %O A090283 1,1 %A A090283 _N. J. A. Sloane_, Jan 24 2004 # Content is available under The OEIS End-User License Agreement: http://oeis.org/LICENSE