login

Year-end appeal: Please make a donation to the OEIS Foundation to support ongoing development and maintenance of the OEIS. We are now in our 61st year, we have over 378,000 sequences, and we’ve reached 11,000 citations (which often say “discovered thanks to the OEIS”).

Triangle arising from (4,2) tennis ball problem, read by rows.
2

%I #11 Jun 13 2017 21:47:03

%S 1,1,2,3,1,4,10,16,22,1,6,21,52,105,158,211,1,8,36,116,301,644,1198,

%T 1752,2306,1,10,55,216,678,1784,4088,8144,14506,20868,27230,1,12,78,

%U 360,1320,4064,10896,25872,55354,105704,183284,260864,338444,1,14,105

%N Triangle arising from (4,2) tennis ball problem, read by rows.

%C Length of row n = 2n+1. Rows have been reversed.

%H D. Merlini, R. Sprugnoli and M. C. Verri, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jcta.2002.3273">The tennis ball problem</a>, J. Combin. Theory, A 99 (2002), 307-344 (Table A.1).

%e Triangle starts:

%e 1;

%e 1, 2, 3;

%e 1, 4, 10, 16, 22;

%e 1, 6, 21, 52, 105, 158, 211;

%e ...

%o (PARI) T(n,k)=if(k<0 || k>2*n,0,if(n<1,k==0,sum(j=0,k,(j+1)*T(n-1,k-j))))

%Y Final diagonal gives A079489. Row sums give A066357(n+1).

%K tabf,nonn

%O 0,3

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_, Jan 20 2003