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A013582
Number of positions in game "Connect Four" (played on usual 6-row, 7-column board) after n moves, up to reflection.
6
1, 4, 25, 121, 568, 2144, 8231, 27473, 92244, 279241, 831581, 2284733, 6118941, 15465573, 37720667, 88273017, 197300906, 429114775, 881951878, 1784140720, 3373100313, 6336692489, 11005448210, 19131647821, 30415473928, 48633111249
OFFSET
0,2
LINKS
Sean A. Irvine, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..42 [a(42) corrected by Sidney Cadot]
John Tromp, John's Connect Four Playground, viewed Jan 23 2014.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Connect-Four
CROSSREFS
Cf. A212693.
Sequence in context: A273023 A013187 A069639 * A260373 A362391 A175733
KEYWORD
nonn,fini,full
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Name clarified by Charles R Greathouse IV, Dec 01 2013
a(3)-a(13) corrected by Sean A. Irvine, Aug 09 2018. The corrected values were confirmed by Russ Cox and extended through a(15), Aug 13 2018
a(16)-a(17) from Sean A. Irvine, Aug 15 2018
Remaining terms a(18)-a(42) from Sean A. Irvine, Oct 02 2018
a(42) corrected by Sidney Cadot, Dec 04 2022, after comparing results of an independent solver and confirming with Sean A. Irvine that the previously given value was indeed erroneous.
STATUS
approved