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A324943
Number of path change-ringing sequences of length n for 4 bells.
11
1, 4, 12, 30, 72, 186, 464, 1122, 2646, 6050, 13408, 28726, 58844, 114418, 209176, 355926, 559108, 800636, 1014616, 1086948, 930728, 595740, 256688, 58948
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
a(n) is the number of (change-ringing) sequences of length[*] n when we are looking at sequences of permutations of the set {1,2,3,4} that satisfy:
1. The position of each bell (number) from one permutation to the next can stay the same or move by at most one place.
2. No permutation can be repeated except for the starting permutation which can be repeated at most once at the end of the sequence to accommodate criterion 4.
3. The sequence must start with the permutation (1,2,3,4).
And does not satisfy:
4. The sequence must end with the same permutation that it started with.
[*]: We define the length of a change-ringing sequence to be the number of permutations in the sequence.
With this [*] definition of the length of a change-ringing sequence; for 4 bells we get a maximum length of factorial(4)=24, thus we have 24 possible lengths, namely 1,2,...,24. Hence {a(n)} has 24 terms. For m bells, where m is a natural number larger than zero, we get a maximum length of factorial(m). When denoting the number of path change-ringing sequences of length n for m bells as a_m(n), {a_m(n)} has factorial(m) terms for all m.
PROG
(Python 3.7) See Jonas K. Sønsteby link.
CROSSREFS
4 bells: A324942, this sequence.
5 bells: A324944, A324945.
6 bells: A324946, A324947.
7 bells: A324948, A324949.
8 bells: A324950, A324951.
9 bells: A324952, A324953.
Number of allowable transition rules: A000071.
Sequence in context: A317780 A274217 A162740 * A301875 A074252 A297079
KEYWORD
nonn,fini,full
AUTHOR
Jonas K. Sønsteby, Mar 20 2019
STATUS
approved