login
The OEIS is supported by the many generous donors to the OEIS Foundation.

 

Logo
Hints
(Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!)
A059518 a(n)/n^2 is the minimal average squared Euclidean distance of n points to their center of gravity among all configurations of n points on the hexagonal lattice. 2
0, 1, 3, 8, 17, 29, 42, 69, 99, 135, 181, 228, 299, 371, 464, 560, 668, 788, 912, 1093, 1275, 1463, 1667, 1895, 2137, 2403, 2673, 2997, 3346, 3705, 4092, 4503, 4923, 5370, 5853, 6363, 6882, 7512, 8154, 8813, 9488, 10164, 10924, 11693, 12506, 13361 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

1,3

LINKS

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..46.

Sean A. Irvine, Illustration of Initial Terms of A059518, 2022.

Sean A. Irvine, Java program (github)

EXAMPLE

a(2)=1 because the squared distance of (0,0) and of (1,0) to their center of gravity (1/2,0) is 1/4, resulting in an average of 1/4 = a(2)/2^2.

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A294412 A227017 A073433 * A024929 A033816 A011889

Adjacent sequences: A059515 A059516 A059517 * A059519 A059520 A059521

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

Zsolt Kukorelly (kukorell(AT)code.ucsd.edu), Feb 15 2001

EXTENSIONS

a(44) corrected by Sean A. Irvine, Oct 02 2022

STATUS

approved

Lookup | Welcome | Wiki | Register | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Style Sheet | Transforms | Superseeker | Recents
The OEIS Community | Maintained by The OEIS Foundation Inc.

License Agreements, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy. .

Last modified March 30 09:39 EDT 2023. Contains 361609 sequences. (Running on oeis4.)