The first three padovan numbers are 1, 1, and 1. The fourth is 2, the sum of the first two padovan numbers. Each successive padovan number is the sum of the padovan numbers that are 2 and 3 positions earlier in the sequence. The padovan numbers are 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, 16, 21, 28, 37, 49, 65, 86, 114, 151, 200 and so on.