A101365 In the interior of a regular n-gon with all diagonals drawn, the number of points where exactly five diagonals intersect.

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Offset

3,16

Comments

When n is odd, there are no intersections in the interior of an n-gon where more than 2 diagonals meet.

When n is not a multiple of 6, there are no intersections in the interior of an n-gon where more than 3 diagonals meet except the center.

When n is not a multiple of 30, there are no intersections in the interior of an n-gon where more than 5 diagonals meet except the center.

I checked the following conjecture up to n=210: "An n-gon with n=30k has 5n points where 6 or 7 diagonals meet and no interior point other than the center where more than 7 diagonals meet; If k is odd, then 6 diagonals meet in each of 4n points and 7 diagonals meet in each of n points; If k is even, then no groups of exactly 6 diagonals meet in a point, while exactly 7 diagonals meet in each of 5n points (all points interior excluding the center)."

Links

Seiichi Manyama, Table of n, a(n) for n = 3..10000 (terms 3..210 from Graeme McRae)

Sequences formed by drawing all diagonals in regular polygon

Example

a(18)=54 because inside a regular 18-gon there are 54 points (3 on each radius) where exactly five diagonals intersect.

Crossrefs

A column of A292105.

Cf. A006561, A007678.

Cf. A000332: C(n, 4) = number of intersection points of diagonals of convex n-gon.

Cf. A006561: number of intersections of diagonals in the interior of regular n-gon.

Cf. A101363: number of 3-way intersections in the interior of a regular 2n-gon.

Cf. A101364: number of 4-way intersections in the interior of a regular n-gon.

Cf. A137938: number of 4-way intersections in the interior of a regular 6n-gon.

Cf. A137939: number of 5-way intersections in the interior of a regular 6n-gon.

Sequence in context: A145332 A087530 A125037 * A022080 A238935 A033688

Adjacent sequences: A101362 A101363 A101364 * A101366 A101367 A101368

Keyword

nonn

Author

Graeme McRae, Dec 26 2004, revised Feb 23 2008

Status

approved