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A002478 Bisection of A000930.
(Formerly M2572 N1017)
16
1, 1, 3, 6, 13, 28, 60, 129, 277, 595, 1278, 2745, 5896, 12664, 27201, 58425, 125491, 269542, 578949, 1243524, 2670964, 5736961, 12322413, 26467299, 56849086, 122106097, 262271568, 563332848, 1209982081, 2598919345, 5582216355, 11990037126, 25753389181 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

COMMENTS

Number of ways to tile a 3 X n region with 1 X 1, 2 X 2 and 3 X 3 tiles.

Diagonal sums of A063967. - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Nov 09 2005

Row sums of number triangle A116088. - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Feb 04 2006

Sequence is identical to its second differences negated, minus the first 3 terms. - Paul Curtz (bpcrtz(AT)free.fr), Feb 10 2008

a(n) = term (3,3) in the 3x3 matrix [0,1,0; 0,0,1; 1,2,1]^n. - Gary W. Adamson (qntmpkt(AT)yahoo.com), May 30 2008

a(n)/a(n-1) tends to 2.147899035..., an eigenvalue of the matrix and a root to x^3 - x^2 - 2x - 1 = 0. - Gary W. Adamson (qntmpkt(AT)yahoo.com), May 30 2008

Contribution from Gary W. Adamson (qntmpkt(AT)yahoo.com), Apr 18 2010: (Start)

INVERT transform of (1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0,...) = (1, 3, 6, 13, 28,...); such

that (1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0,...) convolved with (1, 1, 3, 6, 13, 28, 0, 0, 0,...)

shifts to the left. (End)

REFERENCES

E. Deutsch, Counting tilings with L-tiles and squares, Problem 10877, Amer. Math. Monthly, 110 (March 2003), 245-246.

L. Euler, (E388) Vollstaendige Anleitung zur Algebra, Zweiter Theil, reprinted in: Opera Omnia. Teubner, Leipzig, 1911, Series (1), Vol. 1, p. 322.

S. Heubach, Tiling an m X n Area with Squares of Size up to k X k (m<=5), Congressus Numerantium 140 (1999), pp. 43-64.

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..300

L. Euler, Vollstaendige Anleitung zur Algebra, Zweiter Teil.

INRIA Algorithms Project, Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Structures 412

S. Plouffe, Approximations de S\'{e}ries G\'{e}n\'{e}ratrices et Quelques Conjectures, Dissertation, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

S. Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions and Conjectures, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

FORMULA

a(n)=a(n-1)+2a(n-2)+a(n-3)

a(n)=sum{k=0..n, binomial(2n-2k, k)} - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Nov 13 2004

a(n)=sum{k=0..floor(n/2), sum{j=0..n-k, C(j, n-k-j)C(j, k)}}; - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Nov 09 2005

a(n)=sum{k=0..n, C(2k,n-k)}=sum{k=0..n, C(n,k)C(3k,n)/C(3k,k)}. - Paul Barry (pbarry(AT)wit.ie), Feb 04 2006

EXAMPLE

a(3)=6 as there is one tiling of a 3 X 3 region with only 1 X 1 tiles, 4 tilings with exactly one 2 X 2 tile and 1 tiling consisting of the 3 X 3 tile.

MAPLE

A002478:=-1/(-1+z+2*z**2+z**3); [S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

MATHEMATICA

f[ A_ ] := Module[ {til = A}, AppendTo[ til, A[ [ -1 ] ] + 2A[ [ -2 ] ] + A[ [ -3 ] ] ] ]; NumOfTilings[ n_ ] := Nest[ f, {1, 1, 3}, n - 2 ]; NumOfTilings[ 30 ]

LinearRecurrence[{1, 2, 1}, {1, 1, 3}, 40] (* From Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Jan 28 2012 *)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A054856, A054857, A025234.

Cf. A078007.

Cf. A078039.

Sequence in context: A103788 A106461 A095768 * A106496 A052933 A071014

Adjacent sequences:  A002475 A002476 A002477 * A002479 A002480 A002481

KEYWORD

easy,nonn,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

Additional comments from Silvia Heubach (silvi(AT)cine.net), Apr 21 2000

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