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A110216
Total number of coverings of a cubic board with the minimal number of knights.
3
1, 1, 12, 156, 888
OFFSET
1,3
FORMULA
Sequence A110214 gives minimal number of knights needed to cover an n X n X n board. This sequence gives total number of solutions using A110214(n) knights.
EXAMPLE
a(3) = 12, since reflections or rotations of
OOO KKK OOO
OKO OKO OKO
OOO OOO OOO generate twelve different coverings.
CROSSREFS
This sequence is a 3-dimensional analog of A103315. a(n) = A110219(n, n, n). A102215 gives the number of inequivalent solutions.
Sequence in context: A005723 A097259 A158546 * A218839 A036276 A377759
KEYWORD
hard,nonn
AUTHOR
Nikolaus Meyberg (Nikolaus.Meyberg(AT)t-online.de), Jul 17 2005
STATUS
approved