Riordan numbers show up in several places in set theory. They are closely related to Motzkin numbers, and may be used to derive them.

Riordan numbers is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

Riordan numbers comprise the sequence a where:

   a(0) = 1, a(1) = 0, for subsequent terms, a(n) = (n-1)*(2*a(n-1) + 3*a(n-2))/(n+1)

There are other generating functions, and you are free to use one most convenient for your language.


Task
  • Find and display the first 32 Riordan numbers.


Stretch
  • Find and display the digit count of the 1,000th Riordan number.
  • Find and display the digit count of the 10,000th Riordan number.


See also



F#

<lang fsharp> // Riordan numbers. Nigel Galloway: August 19th., 2022 let r()=seq{yield 1I; yield 0I; yield! Seq.unfold(fun(n,n1,n2)->let r=(n-1I)*(2I*n1+3I*n2)/(n+1I) in Some(r,(n+1I,r,n1)))(2I,0I,1I)} let n=r()|>Seq.take 10000|>Array.ofSeq in n|>Array.take 32|>Seq.iter(printf "%A "); printfn "\nr[999] has %d digits\nr[9999] has %d digits" ((string n.[999]).Length) ((string n.[9999]).Length) </lang>

Output:
1 0 1 1 3 6 15 36 91 232 603 1585 4213 11298 30537 83097 227475 625992 1730787 4805595 13393689 37458330 105089229 95673994 834086421 2358641376 6684761125 18985057351 54022715451 154000562758 439742222071 1257643249140
r[999] has 472 digits
r[9999] has 4765 digits

J

Sequence extender:<lang J>riordanext=: (, (<: % >:)@# * 3 2 +/ .* _2&{.)</lang> Task example:<lang J> riordanext^:(30) 1x 0 1 0 1 1 3 6 15 36 91 232 603 1585 4213 11298 30537 83097 227475 625992 1730787 4805595 13393689 37458330 105089229 295673994 834086421 2358641376 6684761125 18985057351 54022715451 154000562758 439742222071 1257643249140</lang>Stretch:<lang J> #":(1e3-1){riordanext^:(1e3) x:1 0 472

  #":(1e4-1){riordanext^:(1e4) x:1 0

4765</lang>

Phix

with javascript_semantics
requires("1.0.2") -- mpz_get_str(comma_fill) was not working [!!!]
include mpfr.e
constant limit = 10000
sequence a = {mpz_init(1),mpz_init(0)}
for n=2 to limit do
    mpz an = mpz_init()
    mpz_mul_si(an,a[n],2)
    mpz_addmul_si(an,a[n-1],3)
    mpz_mul_si(an,an,n-1)
    assert(mpz_fdiv_q_ui(an,an,n+1)=0)
    a &= an
end for
printf(1,"First 32 Riordan numbers:\n%s\n",
 {join_by(apply(true,mpz_get_str,{a[1..32],10,true}),1,4," ",fmt:="%17s")})
for i in {1e3, 1e4} do
    printf(1,"The %6s: %s\n", {ordinal(i), mpz_get_short_str(a[i])})
end for
Output:
First 32 Riordan numbers:
                1                 0                 1                 1
                3                 6                15                36
               91               232               603             1,585
            4,213            11,298            30,537            83,097
          227,475           625,992         1,730,787         4,805,595
       13,393,689        37,458,330       105,089,229       295,673,994
      834,086,421     2,358,641,376     6,684,761,125    18,985,057,351
   54,022,715,451   154,000,562,758   439,742,222,071 1,257,643,249,140

The one thousandth: 51077756867821111314...79942013897484633052 (472 digits)
The ten thousandth: 19927418577260688844...71395322020211157137 (4,765 digits)

Raku

<lang perl6>use Lingua::EN::Numbers;

my @riordan = 1, 0, { state $n = 1; (++$n - 1) / ($n + 1) × (3 × $^a + 2 × $^b) } … *;

my $upto = 32; say "First {$upto.&cardinal} Riordan numbers:\n" ~ @riordan[^$upto]».&comma».fmt("%17s").batch(4).join("\n") ~ "\n";

sub abr ($_) { .chars < 41 ?? $_ !! .substr(0,20) ~ '..' ~ .substr(*-20) ~ " ({.chars} digits)" }

say "The {.Int.&ordinal}: " ~ abr @riordan[$_ - 1] for 1e3, 1e4</lang>

Output:
First thirty-two Riordan numbers:
                1                 0                 1                 1
                3                 6                15                36
               91               232               603             1,585
            4,213            11,298            30,537            83,097
          227,475           625,992         1,730,787         4,805,595
       13,393,689        37,458,330       105,089,229       295,673,994
      834,086,421     2,358,641,376     6,684,761,125    18,985,057,351
   54,022,715,451   154,000,562,758   439,742,222,071 1,257,643,249,140

The one thousandth: 51077756867821111314..79942013897484633052 (472 digits)
The ten thousandth: 19927418577260688844..71395322020211157137 (4765 digits)

Wren

Library: Wren-gmp
Library: Wren-fmt

<lang ecmascript>import "./gmp" for Mpz import "./fmt" for Fmt

var limit = 10000 var a = List.filled(limit, null) a[0] = Mpz.one a[1] = Mpz.zero for (n in 2...limit) {

   a[n] = (a[n-1] * 2 + a[n-2] * 3) * (n-1) / (n+1)

} System.print("First 32 Riordan numbers:") Fmt.tprint("$,17i", a[0..31], 4) System.print() for (i in [1e3, 1e4]) {

  Fmt.print("$,8r: $20a ($,d digits)", i, a[i-1], a[i-1].toString.count)

}</lang>

Output:
First 32 Riordan numbers:
                1                 0                 1                 1 
                3                 6                15                36 
               91               232               603             1,585 
            4,213            11,298            30,537            83,097 
          227,475           625,992         1,730,787         4,805,595 
       13,393,689        37,458,330       105,089,229       295,673,994 
      834,086,421     2,358,641,376     6,684,761,125    18,985,057,351 
   54,022,715,451   154,000,562,758   439,742,222,071 1,257,643,249,140 

 1,000th: 51077756867821111314...79942013897484633052 (472 digits)
10,000th: 19927418577260688844...71395322020211157137 (4,765 digits)