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A059107 Number of solutions to triples version of Langford (or Langford-Skolem) problem. 3
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 13440, 54947, 249280, 0 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,9

COMMENTS

How many ways are of arranging the numbers 1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3,...,n,n,n so that there is one number between the first and second 1's and one number between the second and third 1's; two numbers between the first and second 2's and two numbers between the second and third 2's; ... n numbers between the first and second n's and n numbers between the second and third n's?

REFERENCES

Gillespie and Utz, A generalized Langford Problem, Fibonacci Quart., 1966, v4, 184-186.

LINKS

J. E. Miller, Langford's Problem

EXAMPLE

For n=9 a solution is 3 4 7 9 3 6 4 8 3 5 7 4 6 9 2 5 8 2 7 6 2 5 1 9 1 8 1.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A014552, A050998, A059106, A059108.

Sequence in context: A094396 A161838 A152624 * A025115 A113037 A063866

Adjacent sequences:  A059104 A059105 A059106 * A059108 A059109 A059110

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,hard

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Feb 14 2001

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