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A058257
Triangle read by rows: this is a variant of A008280 in which 2 rows go from left to right, 2 from right to left, 2 from left to right, etc.
5
1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 3, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 3, 5, 6, 6, 6, 0, 0, 3, 8, 14, 20, 26, 71, 71, 71, 68, 60, 46, 26, 0, 413, 342, 271, 200, 132, 72, 26, 0, 0, 0, 413, 755, 1026, 1226, 1358, 1430, 1456, 1456, 1456, 0, 0, 413, 1168, 2194, 3420, 4778, 6208, 7664, 9120, 10576
OFFSET
0,11
COMMENTS
Suggested by Atkinson article in Information Processing Letters.
REFERENCES
M. D. Atkinson, Partial orders and comparison problems, Sixteenth Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, (Boca Raton, Feb 1985), Congressus Numerantium 47, 77-88.
LINKS
M. D. Atkinson, Zigzag permutations and comparisons of adjacent elements, Information Processing Letters 21 (1985), 187-189.
J. Millar, N. J. A. Sloane and N. E. Young, A new operation on sequences: the Boustrophedon transform, J. Combin. Theory, 17A (1996), 44-54 (Abstract, pdf, ps).
EXAMPLE
Triangle begins:
1;
0, 1;
0, 0, 1;
1, 1, 1, 0;
3, 2, 1, 0, 0;
0, 3, 5, 6, 6, 6;
...
PROG
(Haskell)
a058257 n k = a058257_tabl !! n !! k
a058257_row n = a058257_tabl !! n
a058257_tabl = [1] : ox 0 [1] where
ox turn xs = ys : ox (mod (turn + 1) 4) ys
where ys | turn <= 1 = scanl (+) 0 xs
| otherwise = reverse $ scanl (+) 0 $ reverse xs
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Nov 01 2013
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy,tabl,nice
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 06 2000
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Larry Reeves (larryr(AT)acm.org), Dec 12 2000
STATUS
approved