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A090031 Number of configurations of the 5 X 5 variant of sliding block 15-puzzle ("24-puzzle") that require a minimum of n moves to be reached, starting with the empty square in one of the corners. 6
1, 2, 4, 10, 26, 64, 159, 366, 862, 1904, 4538, 10238, 24098, 53186, 123435, 268416, 616374, 1326882, 3021126, 6438828, 14524718, 30633586, 68513713, 143106496, 317305688, 656178756, 1442068376, 2951523620 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

The 15-block puzzle is often referred to (incorrectly) as Sam Loyd's 15-Puzzle.

114 <= (number of last sequence term) <= 210. Sum of sequence terms=A088020(5)/2.

REFERENCES

See A087725 for references.

LINKS

Hugo Pfoertner, Configuration counts for n*n sliding block puzzles.

Tomas Rokicki, comment in Twenty-Four puzzle, some observations

PROG

See link in A089473.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A087725, A089473, A089484, A090032.

Sequence in context: A100605 A183947 A154322 * A055775 A090032 A090377

Adjacent sequences:  A090028 A090029 A090030 * A090032 A090033 A090034

KEYWORD

fini,hard,nonn

AUTHOR

Hugo Pfoertner (hugo(AT)pfoertner.org), Nov 25 2003

EXTENSIONS

Added more terms, Tomas Rokicki, Aug 09 2011.

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