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A086832
Number of ways to tile an n X n board having a black border with the following 1 X 1 tiles: bbbb, bbww, wbbw, bwwb, wwbb, where the colors are read clockwise around each tile.
2
1, 2, 5, 36, 324, 7041, 233265, 16038658, 1884307184, 426645198097, 173238487743952
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
A valid tiling is one in which black touches black and white touches white.
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A160968 A329704 A275552 * A317801 A111491 A331402
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Aaron M. Balog (ambalog(AT)ucdavis.edu), Aug 07 2003
STATUS
approved