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A187592
Number of 9-step E, S, NW and NE-moving king's tours on an n X n board summed over all starting positions.
1
0, 0, 13, 2792, 27252, 103108, 246792, 458018, 732810, 1069534, 1468190, 1928778, 2451298, 3035750, 3682134, 4390450, 5160698, 5992878, 6886990, 7843034, 8861010, 9940918, 11082758, 12286530, 13552234, 14879870, 16269438, 17720938, 19234370
OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
Row 9 of A187586.
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FORMULA
Empirical: a(n) = 30966*n^2 - 251630*n + 489234 for n>7.
Conjectures from Colin Barker, Apr 24 2018: (Start)
G.f.: x^3*(13 + 2753*x + 18915*x^2 + 29715*x^3 + 16432*x^4 - 286*x^5 - 3976*x^6 - 1634*x^7) / (1 - x)^3.
a(n) = 3*a(n-1) - 3*a(n-2) + a(n-3) for n>10.
(End)
EXAMPLE
Some solutions for 4 X 4:
..0..0..7..8....3..0..0..9....0..0..8..9....6..8..9..0....0..4..0..0
..5..6..0..9....4..2..8..0....0..1..6..7....7..5..0..0....0..5..3..1
..2..4..0..0....5..7..1..0....0..2..4..5....4..2..0..0....8..6..0..2
..3..1..0..0....6..0..0..0....0..3..0..0....0..3..1..0....9..7..0..0
CROSSREFS
Cf. A187586.
Sequence in context: A348817 A195537 A203692 * A287036 A208315 A296174
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
R. H. Hardin, Mar 11 2011
STATUS
approved