A171076 Total number of balls in room in variant of the tennis ball problem (cf. A171074);

2, 20, 188, 1222, 6872, 35954, 180070

Offset

1,1

Comments

Apparently equals A051133(n) - A090288(n-1) after 1st term.

Note that A051133 yields the totals of all C(2n, n) ball sets and A005893 and A090288 are the respective totals of impossible combinations given the rules.

References

David Scambler, Just for fun, more tennis balls, Posting to the Sequence Fans Mailing List, Aug 25 2010.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..7.

Crossrefs

Sequence in context: A037566 A125857 A226312 * A287999 A348886 A001078

Adjacent sequences: A171073 A171074 A171075 * A171077 A171078 A171079

Keyword

nonn

Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Sep 06 2010

Status

approved