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A007160 Number of diagonal dissections of a convex (n+6)-gon into n regions.
(Formerly M5094)
5
1, 20, 225, 1925, 14014, 91728, 556920, 3197700, 17587350, 93486536, 483367885, 2442687975, 12109051500, 59053512000, 283963030560, 1348824395160, 6338392712550, 29503515951000, 136173391604250 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENTS

Number of standard tableaux of shape (n,n,1,1,1,1) (see Stanley reference). - Emeric Deutsch (deutsch(AT)duke.poly.edu), May 20 2004

REFERENCES

D. Beckwith, Legendre polynomials and polygon dissections?, Amer. Math. Monthly, 105 (1998), 256-257.

P. Lisonek, Closed forms for the number of polygon dissections. Journal of Symbolic Computation 20 (1995), 595-601.

R. C. Read, On general dissections of a polygon, Aequat. Math. 18 (1978), 370-388.

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

R. P. Stanley, Polygon dissections and standard Young tableaux, J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A, 76, 175-177, 1996.

LINKS

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..150

FORMULA

(n+5)(n-1)*n*a(n)=2(2n+3)(n+3)(n+2)a(n-1).

a(n)=binomial(n+3, 4)*binomial(2n+4, n-1)/n.

MATHEMATICA

a[n_] := (n+1)(n+2)(n+3)*Binomial[2n+4, n-1]/24; Table[a[n], {n, 1, 19}](* From Jean-François Alcover, Nov 16 2011 *)

PROG

(MAGMA) [Binomial(n+3, 4)*Binomial(2*n+4, n-1)/n  : n in [1..30]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Nov 17 2011

CROSSREFS

A diagonal of A033282.

Sequence in context: A178261 A054329 A112503 * A195265 A023018 A073386

Adjacent sequences:  A007157 A007158 A007159 * A007161 A007162 A007163

KEYWORD

easy,nonn,nice

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

Offset is correct!

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