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A060422
Number of acute triangles made from vertices of a regular n-gon.
1
0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 5, 2, 14, 8, 30, 20, 55, 40, 91, 70, 140, 112, 204, 168, 285, 240, 385, 330, 506, 440, 650, 572, 819, 728, 1015, 910, 1240, 1120, 1496, 1360, 1785, 1632, 2109, 1938, 2470, 2280
OFFSET
0,6
FORMULA
a(n) = n*(n+1)*(n-1)/24 when n is odd, otherwise n*(n-2)*(n-4)/24.
G.f.: x^3*(2*x^2-x+1) / ((x-1)^4*(x+1)^3). - Colin Barker, Dec 24 2012
a(n) = n*(2*n^2-6*n+7-3*(2*n-3)*(-1)^n)/48. - Luce ETIENNE, Mar 19 2015
MATHEMATICA
LinearRecurrence[{1, 3, -3, -3, 3, 1, -1}, {0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 5, 2}, 50] (* Vincenzo Librandi, Dec 25 2012 *)
CROSSREFS
Union of A000330, A007290.
Sequence in context: A158868 A104634 A194008 * A213751 A185781 A265434
KEYWORD
easy,nonn
AUTHOR
Sen-Peng Eu, Apr 05 2001
STATUS
approved