More new properties of modified Jacobsthal and Jacobsthal–Lucas numbers

Julius Fergy T. Rabago
Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, ISSN 1310–5132
Volume 21, 2015, Number 2, Pages 43–54
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Julius Fergy T. Rabago
Institute of Mathematics, College of Science
University of the Philippines Diliman
Quezon City 1101, Philippines

Abstract

We present some new elementary properties of modified Jacobsthal (Atanassov, 2011) and Jacobsthal–Lucas numbers (Shang, 2012).

Keywords

• Jacobsthal numbers
• Jacobsthal–Lucas numbers
• Second-order recurrence sequence

AMS Classification

• 11B39
• 11B37

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