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A003456
Number of nonequivalent dissections of an n-gon by nonintersecting diagonals rooted at a cell up to rotation and reflection.
(Formerly M1509)
5
1, 2, 5, 17, 62, 275, 1272, 6225, 31075, 158376, 816229, 4251412, 22319056, 117998524, 627573216, 3355499036, 18025442261, 97239773408, 526560862829, 2861189112867, 15595669996482, 85252072993968, 467247847612316, 2567091151780343
OFFSET
3,2
COMMENTS
Total number of dissections of an n-gon into polygons with reflection and rooted at a cell. - Sean A. Irvine, May 14 2015
REFERENCES
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
P. Lisonek, Closed forms for the number of polygon dissections, Journal of Symbolic Computation 20 (1995), 595-601.
Ronald C. Read, On general dissections of a polygon, Aequat. math. 18 (1978) 370-388.
PROG
(PARI) \\ See A003447 for DissectionsModDihedralRooted()
DissectionsModDihedralRooted(apply(i->1, [1..30]))
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Sean A. Irvine, May 14 2015
Name clarified by Andrew Howroyd, Nov 24 2017
a(15) corrected by Andrew Howroyd, Nov 24 2017
STATUS
approved