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A005899
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Number of points on surface of octahedron; also coordination sequence for cubic lattice: a(0) = 1; for n > 0, a(n) = 4n^2 + 2.
(Formerly M4115)
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75
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1, 6, 18, 38, 66, 102, 146, 198, 258, 326, 402, 486, 578, 678, 786, 902, 1026, 1158, 1298, 1446, 1602, 1766, 1938, 2118, 2306, 2502, 2706, 2918, 3138, 3366, 3602, 3846, 4098, 4358, 4626, 4902, 5186, 5478, 5778, 6086, 6402, 6726, 7058, 7398, 7746, 8102, 8466
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OFFSET
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0,2
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COMMENTS
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Also, the number of regions the plane can be cut into by two overlapping concave (2n)-gons. - Joshua Zucker, Nov 05 2002
If X is an n-set and Y_i (i=1,2,3) are mutually disjoint 2-subsets of X then a(n-5) is equal to the number of 5-subsets of X intersecting each Y_i (i=1,2,3). - Milan Janjic, Aug 26 2007
Also the least number of unit cubes required, at the n-th iteration, to surround a 3D solid built from unit cubes, in order to hide all its visible faces, starting with a unit cube. - R. J. Cano, Sep 29 2015
Also, coordination sequence for "tfs" 3D uniform tiling. - N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 10 2018
Also, the number of n-th order specular reflections arriving at a receiver point from an emitter point inside a cuboid with reflective faces. - Michael Schutte, Sep 18 2018
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REFERENCES
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H. S. M. Coxeter, "Polyhedral numbers," in R. S. Cohen et al., editors, For Dirk Struik. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1974, pp. 25-35.
Gmelin Handbook of Inorg. and Organomet. Chem., 8th Ed., 1994, TYPIX search code (225) cF8
B. Grünbaum, Uniform tilings of 3-space, Geombinatorics, 4 (1994), 49-56. See tilings #16 and #22.
R. W. Marks and R. B. Fuller, The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller. Anchor, NY, 1973, p. 46.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
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LINKS
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J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane, Low-Dimensional Lattices VII: Coordination Sequences, Proc. Royal Soc. London, A453 (1997), 2369-2389 (pdf).
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FORMULA
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Binomial transform of [1, 5, 7, 1, -1, 1, -1, 1, ...]. - Gary W. Adamson, Nov 02 2007
a(n) = 3*a(n-1) - 3*a(n-2) + a(n-3), with a(0)=1, a(1)=6, a(2)=18, a(3)=38. - Harvey P. Dale, Nov 08 2011
Recurrence: n*a(n) = (n-2)*a(n-2) + 6*a(n-1), a(0)=1, a(1)=6. - Fung Lam, Apr 15 2014
a(n) = 2*d*Hypergeometric2F1(1-d, 1-n, 2, 2) where d=3, n>0. - Shel Kaphan, Feb 16 2023
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MAPLE
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MATHEMATICA
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Join[{1}, 4Range[40]^2+2] (* or *) Join[{1}, LinearRecurrence[{3, -3, 1}, {6, 18, 38}, 40]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Nov 08 2011 *)
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PROG
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(PARI) Vec(((1+x)/(1-x))^3 + O(x^100)) \\ Altug Alkan, Oct 26 2015
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CROSSREFS
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The 28 uniform 3D tilings: cab: A299266, A299267; crs: A299268, A299269; fcu: A005901, A005902; fee: A299259, A299265; flu-e: A299272, A299273; fst: A299258, A299264; hal: A299274, A299275; hcp: A007899, A007202; hex: A005897, A005898; kag: A299256, A299262; lta: A008137, A299276; pcu: A005899, A001845; pcu-i: A299277, A299278; reo: A299279, A299280; reo-e: A299281, A299282; rho: A008137, A299276; sod: A005893, A005894; sve: A299255, A299261; svh: A299283, A299284; svj: A299254, A299260; svk: A010001, A063489; tca: A299285, A299286; tcd: A299287, A299288; tfs: A005899, A001845; tsi: A299289, A299290; ttw: A299257, A299263; ubt: A299291, A299292; bnn: A007899, A007202. See the Proserpio link in A299266 for overview.
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KEYWORD
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nonn,easy,nice
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STATUS
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approved
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