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A324952
Number of cyclic change-ringing sequences of length n for 9 bells.
11
1, 54, 996, 28884, 834680
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 {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} 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 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9).
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 9 bells we get a maximum length of factorial(9)=362880, thus we have 362880 possible lengths, namely 1,2,...,362880. Hence {a(n)} has 362880 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 cyclic 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, A324943.
5 bells: A324944, A324945.
6 bells: A324946, A324947.
7 bells: A324948, A324949.
8 bells: A324950, A324951.
9 bells: This sequence, A324953.
Number of allowable transition rules: A000071.
Sequence in context: A298069 A281776 A160345 * A298718 A245832 A121625
KEYWORD
nonn,fini,more
AUTHOR
Jonas K. Sønsteby, May 01 2019
STATUS
approved