OFFSET
1,5
COMMENTS
Previous name was: Number of knight's paths visiting each square of an n X n chessboard exactly once.
LINKS
Stefan Behnel, The Knight's Paths
A. Chernov, Open knight's tours
Gheorghe Coserea, Solutions for 5x5 chessboard
P. Hingston, G. Kendall, Enumerating knight's tours using an ant colony algorithm, The 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2 (2006), 1003-1010
G. Stertenbrink, Number of Knight's Tours
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Hamiltonian Path
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Knight Graph
EXAMPLE
From Gheorghe Coserea, Oct 08 2016: (Start)
For n=5 the numbers in the table below give the number of knight's paths starting at the respective position on the 5 X 5 chessboard. In total there are a(5) = 304*4 + 56*8 + 64 = 1728 solutions.
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
[1] 304 0 56 0 304
[2] 0 56 0 56 0
[3] 56 0 64 0 56
[4] 0 56 0 56 0
[5] 304 0 56 0 304
(End)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,hard,more
AUTHOR
[No name given] (c.candide(AT)free.fr), Sep 04 2009
EXTENSIONS
a(7) from Guenter Stertenbrink, added by Alex Chernov, Sep 01 2013
a(1)=1, a(2)=0 prepended by Max Alekseyev, Sep 22 2013
a(8) from Alex Chernov, May 10 2014
Name made more precise by Eric W. Weisstein, Apr 14 2019
STATUS
approved