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%S 1,4,16,50,144,422,1268,3823,11472,34350,102896,308419,924532,2771101,
%T 8305373,24892609,74608516,223618304,670231838,2008825312,6020872062,
%U 18045827096,54087163859,162110668160,485879938474,1456284886944
%N Number of nX1 0..3 arrays with every nonzero element less than or equal to some horizontal or vertical neighbor.
%H R. H. Hardin, <a href="/A203094/b203094.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..210</a>
%H T. Mansour and M. Shattuck, <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL13/Shattuck/shattuck3.html">Counting Peaks and Valleys in a Partition of a Set</a>, J. Int. Seq. 13 (2010), 10.6.8, Lemma 2.1, k=4, no peak.
%F Empirical: a(n) = 4*a(n-1) -6*a(n-2) +10*a(n-3) -5*a(n-4) +6*a(n-5) -a(n-6) +a(n-7).
%F Empirical: G.f.: -x*(1+6*x^2+5*x^4+x^6) / (-1+4*x-6*x^2+10*x^3-5*x^4+6*x^5-x^6+x^7). - _R. J. Mathar_, May 17 2014
%e Some solutions for n=5
%e ..3....1....1....1....1....3....3....1....0....1....1....3....2....0....3....3
%e ..3....1....1....2....2....3....3....1....2....1....1....3....2....2....3....3
%e ..1....3....1....2....3....3....1....0....3....0....2....3....3....3....3....0
%e ..3....3....2....1....3....3....3....0....3....0....2....3....3....3....2....1
%e ..3....0....2....0....3....0....3....0....0....0....1....0....1....3....1....1
%Y Column 1 of A203101. Also a column of A228461. Cf. A217883, A217954.
%K nonn
%O 1,2
%A _R. H. Hardin_, Dec 29 2011
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