OFFSET
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COMMENTS
Conjecture 1: the number of nonzero terms in row n equals A082647(n).
Conjecture 2: column k lists positive integers interleaved with 2*k+2 zeros.
The subparts of the ziggurat diagram are the polygons formed by the cells that are under the staircases.
The connection of the subparts of the ziggurat diagram with the polygonal numbers is as follows:
The area under a double-staircase labeled with the number j is equal to the m-th (j+2)-gonal number plus the (m-1)-th (j+2)-gonal number, where m is the number of steps on one side of the ladder from the base to the top.
The area under a simple-staircase labeled with the number j is equal to the m-th (j+2)-gonal number, where m is the number of steps.
So the k-th column of the triangle is related to the (2*k+1)-gonal numbers, for example:
For the calculation of column 1 we use triangular numbers A000217.
For the calculation of column 2 we use pentagonal numbers A000326.
For the calculation of column 3 we use heptagonal numbers A000566.
For the calculation of column 4 we use enneagonal numbers A001106.
And so on.
More generally, for the calculation of column k we use the (2*k+1)-gonal numbers.
For further information about the ziggurat diagram see A347186.
EXAMPLE
Triangle begins:
n / k 1 2 3 4
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1 | 1;
2 | 4;
3 | 6;
4 | 16;
5 | 12;
6 | 36, 1;
7 | 20, 0;
8 | 64, 0;
9 | 30, 6;
10 | 90, 0;
11 | 42, 0;
12 | 144, 17;
13 | 56, 0;
14 | 156, 0;
15 | 72, 34, 1;
16 | 256, 0, 0;
17 | 90, 0, 0;
18 | 324, 10, 0;
19 | 110, 0 0;
20 | 400, 0, 8;
21 | 132, 70, 0;
22 | 342, 0, 0;
23 | 156, 0, 0;
24 | 576, 121, 0;
25 | 182, 0, 25;
26 | 462, 0, 0;
27 | 210, 102, 0;
28 | 784, 0, 0, 1;
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For n = 15 the calculation of the 15th row of the triangle (in accordance with the geometric algorithm described in A347186) is as follows:
Stage 1 (Construction):
We draw the diagram called "double-staircases" with 15 levels described in A335616.
Then we label the five double-staircases (j = 1..5) as shown below:
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Stage 2 (Debugging):
We remove the fourth double-staircase as it does not have at least one step at level 1 of the diagram starting from the base, as shown below:
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Stage 3 (Annihilation):
We delete the second double-staircase and the steps of the first double-staircase that are just above the second double-staircase.
The new diagram has two double-staircases and two simple-staircases as shown below:
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The diagram is called "ziggurat of 15".
Now we calculate the area (or the number of cells) under the staircases with multiplicity using polygonal numbers as shown below:
The area under the staircase labeled 1 is equal to A000217(8) = 36. There is a pair of these staircases, so T(15,1) = 2*36 = 72.
The area under the double-staircase labeled 3 is equal to A000326(4) + A000326(3) = 22 + 12 = 34, so T(15,2) = 34.
The area under the double-staircase labeled 5 is equal to A000566(1) + A000566(0) = 1 + 0 = 1, so T(15,3) = 1.
Therefore the 15th row of the triangle is [72, 34, 1].
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,tabf
AUTHOR
Omar E. Pol, Sep 05 2021
STATUS
approved