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A007678 Number of regions in regular n-gon with all diagonals drawn.
(Formerly M3411)
142
0, 0, 1, 4, 11, 24, 50, 80, 154, 220, 375, 444, 781, 952, 1456, 1696, 2500, 2466, 4029, 4500, 6175, 6820, 9086, 9024, 12926, 13988, 17875, 19180, 24129, 21480, 31900, 33856, 41416, 43792, 52921, 52956, 66675, 69996, 82954, 86800, 102050 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
1,4
COMMENTS
This sequence and A006533 are two equivalent ways of presenting the same sequence.
A quasipolynomial of order 2520. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Jan 15 2013
Also the circuit rank of the n-polygon diagonal intersection graph. - Eric W. Weisstein, Mar 08 2018
This sequence only counts polygons, in contrast to A006533, which also counts the n segments of the circumscribed circle delimited by the edges of the regular n-gon. Therefore, a(n) = A006533(n) - n. See also A006561 which counts the number of intersection points, and A350000 which considers iterated "cutting along diagonals". - M. F. Hasler, Dec 13 2021
The Petrie polygon orthographic projection of a regular n-simplex is a regular (n+1)-gon with all diagonals drawn. Hence a(n+1) is the number of regions in the Petrie polygon of a regular n-simplex. - Mohammed Yaseen, Nov 05 2022
REFERENCES
Jean Meeus, Wiskunde Post (Belgium), Vol. 10, 1972, pp. 62-63.
C. A. Pickover, The Mathematics of Oz, Problem 58 "The Beauty of Polygon Slicing", Cambridge University Press, 2002.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
Lars Blomberg, Scott R. Shannon, and N. J. A. Sloane, Graphical Enumeration and Stained Glass Windows, 1: Rectangular Grids, (2020). Also arXiv:2009.07918.
M. Griffiths, Counting the regions in a regular drawing of K_{n,n}, J. Int. Seq. 13 (2010) # 10.8.5.
Sascha Kurz, m-gons in regular n-gons (in German).
J. Meeus & N. J. A. Sloane, Correspondence, 1974-1975
B. Poonen and M. Rubinstein, The Number of Intersection Points Made by the Diagonals of a Regular Polygon, SIAM J. Discrete Mathematics 11, no. 1 (1998), pp. 135-156; DOI:10.1137/S0895480195281246. [Author's copy]. The latest arXiv version arXiv:math/9508209 has corrected some typos in the published version.
B. Poonen and M. Rubinstein, Mathematica programs for these sequences
Scott R. Shannon, Colored illustration for n = 41 (3rd version). This variation has coloring based on the number of edges of the polygon: red = 3-gon, orange = 4-gon, yellow = 5-gon, light-green = 6-gon etc.
N. J. A. Sloane (in collaboration with Scott R. Shannon), Art and Sequences, Slides of guest lecture in Math 640, Rutgers Univ., Feb 8, 2020. Mentions this sequence.
N. J. A. Sloane, "A Handbook of Integer Sequences" Fifty Years Later, arXiv:2301.03149 [math.NT], 2023, p. 18.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Circuit Rank
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Polygon Diagonal Intersection Graph
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Regular Polygon Division by Diagonals
FORMULA
For odd n > 3, a(n) = sumstep {i=5, n, 2, (i-2)*floor(n/2)+(i-4)*ceiling(n/2)+1} + x*(x+1)*(2*x+1)/6*n), where x = (n-5)/2. Simplifying the floor/ceiling components gives the PARI code below. - Jon Perry, Jul 08 2003
For odd n, a(n) = (24 - 42*n + 23*n^2 - 6*n^3 + n^4)/24. - Graeme McRae, Dec 24 2004
a(n) = A006533(n) - n. - T. D. Noe, Dec 23 2006
For odd n, binomial transform of [1, 10, 29, 36, 16, 0, 0, 0, ...] = [1, 11, 50, 154, ...]. - Gary W. Adamson, Aug 02 2011
a(n) = A135565(n) - A007569(n) + 1. - Max Alekseyev
See the Mma code in A006533 for the explicit Poonen-Rubenstein formula that holds for all n. - N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 23 2020
MATHEMATICA
del[m_, n_]:=If[Mod[n, m]==0, 1, 0]; R[n_]:=If[n<3, 0, (n^4-6n^3+23n^2-42n+24)/24 + del[2, n](-5n^3+42n^2-40n-48)/48 - del[4, n](3n/4) + del[6, n](-53n^2+310n)/12 + del[12, n](49n/2) + del[18, n]*32n + del[24, n]*19n - del[30, n]*36n - del[42, n]*50n - del[60, n]*190n - del[84, n]*78n - del[90, n]*48n - del[120, n]*78n - del[210, n]*48n]; Table[R[n], {n, 1, 1000}] (* T. D. Noe, Dec 21 2006 *)
PROG
(PARI) /* Only for odd n > 3, not suitable for other values of n! */ { a(n)=local(nr, x, fn, cn, fn2); nr=0; fn=floor(n/2); cn=ceil(n/2); fn2=(fn-1)^2-1; nr=fn2*n+fn+(n-2)*fn+cn; x=(n-5)/2; if (x>0, nr+=x*(x+1)*(2*x+1)/6*n); nr; } \\ Jon Perry, Jul 08 2003
(PARI) apply( {A007678(n)=if(n%2, (((n-6)*n+23)*n-42)*n/24+1, ((n^3/2 -17*n^2/4 +22*n -if(n%4, 31, 40) +!(n%6)*(310 -53*n))/12 +!(n%12)*49/2 +!(n%18)*32 +!(n%24)*19 -!(n%30)*36 -!(n%42)*50 -!(n%60)*190 -!(n%84)*78 -!(n%90)*48 -!(n%120)*78 -!(n%210)*48)*n)}, [1..44]) \\ M. F. Hasler, Aug 06 2021
(Python)
def d(n, m): return not n % m
def A007678(n): return (1176*d(n, 12)*n - 3744*d(n, 120)*n + 1536*d(n, 18)*n - d(n, 2)*(5*n**3 - 42*n**2 + 40*n + 48) - 2304*d(n, 210)*n + 912*d(n, 24)*n - 1728*d(n, 30)*n - 36*d(n, 4)*n - 2400*d(n, 42)*n - 4*d(n, 6)*n*(53*n - 310) - 9120*d(n, 60)*n - 3744*d(n, 84)*n - 2304*d(n, 90)*n + 2*n**4 - 12*n**3 + 46*n**2 - 84*n)//48 + 1 # Chai Wah Wu, Mar 08 2021
CROSSREFS
Cf. A001006, A054726, A006533, A006561, A006600, A007569 (number of vertices), A006522, A135565 (number of line segments).
A062361 gives number of triangles, A331450 and A331451 give distribution of polygons by number of sides.
A333654, A335614, A335646, A337330 give the number of internal n-gon to k-gon contacts for n>=3, k>=n.
A187781 gives number of distinct regions.
Sequence in context: A260057 A260150 A258472 * A339493 A364282 A159350
KEYWORD
nonn,nice
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Bjorn Poonen (poonen(AT)math.princeton.edu)
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Graeme McRae, Dec 26 2004
a(1) = a(2) = 0 prepended by Max Alekseyev, Dec 01 2011
STATUS
approved

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