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A036464 Number of ways to place two nonattacking queens on an n X n board. 13
0, 0, 8, 44, 140, 340, 700, 1288, 2184, 3480, 5280, 7700, 10868, 14924, 20020, 26320, 34000, 43248, 54264, 67260, 82460, 100100, 120428, 143704, 170200, 200200, 234000, 271908, 314244, 361340, 413540, 471200, 534688, 604384 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

1,3

REFERENCES

S. Chaiken, C. R. H. Hanusa and T. Zaslavsky, A q-queens problem I. General theory, January 26, 2013; http://www.math.binghamton.edu/zaslav/Tpapers/qq1.pdf. - From N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 16 2013

I. Rivin, I. Vardi and P. Zimmermann, The n-queens problem, Amer. Math. Monthly, 101 (1994), 629-639.

LINKS

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000

Index to sequences with linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (5,-10,10,-5,1).

FORMULA

a(n) = C(n, 3)*(3*n-1).

G.f.: 4*x^3*(2+x)/(1-x)^5. [Colin Barker, May 02 2012]

MAPLE

f:=n->n^4/2 - 5*n^3/3 + 3*n^2/2 - n/3; [seq(f(n), n=1..200)]; # From N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 16 2013

MATHEMATICA

f[k_] := 2 k; t[n_] := Table[f[k], {k, 1, n}]

a[n_] := SymmetricPolynomial[2, t[n]]

Table[a[n], {n, 2, 50}]   (* A036464 *)

Table[a[n]/4, {n, 2, 50}] (* A000914 *)

(* Clark Kimberling, Dec 31 2011 *)

CoefficientList[Series[4 x^2 (2 + x) / (1-x)^5, {x, 0, 40}], x] (* Vincenzo Librandi, May 02 2013 *)

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A075816 A188148 A100583 * A000938 A165618 A059596

Adjacent sequences:  A036461 A036462 A036463 * A036465 A036466 A036467

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

Robert G. Wilson v, Raymond Bush (c17h21no4(AT)hotmail.com), Kirk Conely, N. J. A. Sloane.

STATUS

approved

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