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A018842 Number of squares on infinite chess-board at n knight's moves from center. 3
1, 8, 32, 68, 96, 120, 148, 176, 204, 232, 260, 288, 316, 344, 372, 400, 428, 456, 484, 512, 540, 568, 596, 624, 652, 680, 708, 736, 764, 792, 820, 848, 876, 904, 932, 960, 988, 1016, 1044, 1072, 1100, 1128, 1156 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

LINKS

Mordechai Katzman, Knight's moves on an infinite board

FORMULA

a(n) = 28*n+8, n >= 4.

MAPLE

(1+5*x+12*x^2-8*x^4+4*x^5)*(1+x)/(1-x)^2;

MATHEMATICA

CoefficientList[Series[(1+5x+12x^2-8x^4+4x^5)(1+x)/(1-x)^2, {x, 0, 50}], x] (* or *) Join[{1, 8, 32, 68, 96}, LinearRecurrence[{2, -1}, {120, 148}, 46]] (* From Harvey P. Dale, July 05 2011 *)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A018836, A038522.

Sequence in context: A005879 A067519 A009245 * A139098 A130809 A018839

Adjacent sequences:  A018839 A018840 A018841 * A018843 A018844 A018845

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,walk,easy

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Marc LeBrun (mlb(AT)well.com)

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