login

Year-end appeal: Please make a donation to the OEIS Foundation to support ongoing development and maintenance of the OEIS. We are now in our 61st year, we have over 378,000 sequences, and we’ve reached 11,000 citations (which often say “discovered thanks to the OEIS”).

A210158
Number of (n+1) X 2 0..3 arrays with every 2 X 2 subblock having two or three distinct values, and new values 0..3 introduced in row major order.
1
13, 148, 1977, 27720, 393649, 5608216, 79963353, 1140367704, 16263750913, 231954064216, 3308145663081, 47181050078808, 672900213492241, 9596961465020248, 136872702133795833, 1952090431423132248
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Column 1 of A210165.
LINKS
FORMULA
Empirical: a(n) = 16*a(n-1) - 19*a(n-2) - 80*a(n-3) - 36*a(n-4).
Empirical g.f.: x*(13 - 60*x - 144*x^2 - 60*x^3) / ((1 - 3*x - 2*x^2)*(1 - 13*x - 18*x^2)). - Colin Barker, Jul 14 2018
EXAMPLE
Some solutions for n=4:
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1
0 2 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 1 0 1 1 2 2 3 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 1 1 0
1 0 3 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 2 0
CROSSREFS
Cf. A210165.
Sequence in context: A210165 A132156 A324356 * A130611 A127747 A090667
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
R. H. Hardin, Mar 18 2012
STATUS
approved