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A198807
Number of closed paths of length 13n whose steps are 13th roots of unity.
0
1, 6227020800, 49229914688306352000000, 1561776277448122046153927884800000000, 92024242230271040357108320801872044844750000000000, 7708574168669332219803079339976372645861971547841327593737420800
OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
Equivalently, the number of paths of length 13n in Z^13 from {0}^13 to {n}^13. - Andrew Howroyd, Nov 01 2018
LINKS
Gilbert Labelle and Annie Lacasse, Closed paths whose steps are roots of unity, in FPSAC 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland DMTCS proc. AO, 2011, 599-610.
FORMULA
a(n) = (13*n)!/(n!)^13. - Andrew Howroyd, Nov 01 2018
PROG
(PARI) a(n) = (13*n)!/(n!)^13; \\ Andrew Howroyd, Nov 01 2018
CROSSREFS
Row n=13 of A187783, column k=13 of A089759.
Sequence in context: A004675 A011524 A172534 * A358489 A281222 A258365
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Simon Plouffe, Oct 30 2011
EXTENSIONS
Sequence redefined and a(2)-a(5) from Andrew Howroyd, Nov 01 2018
STATUS
approved