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A135708 Minimal total number of edges in a polyhex consisting of n hexagonal cells. 4
6, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 30, 34, 38, 41, 45, 48, 52, 55, 59, 62, 66, 69, 72, 76, 79, 83, 86, 89, 93, 96, 99, 103, 106, 109, 113, 116, 119, 123, 126, 129, 132, 136, 139, 142, 146, 149, 152, 155, 159, 162, 165, 168, 172, 175, 178, 181, 185, 188, 191, 194, 198, 201, 204, 207, 210 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

The extremal examples were described by Y. S. Kupitz in 1991.

REFERENCES

Y. S. Kupitz, "On the maximal number of appearances of the minimal distance among n points in the plane", in Intuitive geometry: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference held in Szeged, Hungary, 1991; Amsterdam: North-Holland: Colloq. Math. Soc. Janos Bolyai. 63, 217-244.

FORMULA

3*n+ceil(sqrt(12*n-3)) [H. Harborth]

2*a(n) - A135711(n) = 6n. - Tanya Khovanova (tanyakh(AT)yahoo.com), Mar 07 2008

CROSSREFS

Cf. A135711.

Sequence in context: A043098 A039276 A044995 * A043878 A193886 A141352

Adjacent sequences:  A135705 A135706 A135707 * A135709 A135710 A135711

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), based on an email from Sascha Kurz, Mar 05 2008

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