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”).

A217960
Number of nX4 arrays of the minimum value of corresponding elements and their horizontal or antidiagonal neighbors in a random 0..2 nX4 array
1
17, 321, 5415, 93765, 1602741, 27317977, 465184959, 7919256577, 134805742899, 2294680520773, 39060078023831, 664879775228995, 11317562137329901, 192647146079979077, 3279232808653682467, 55818982418231563527
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Column 4 of A217964
LINKS
FORMULA
Empirical: a(n) = 19*a(n-1) -23*a(n-2) -144*a(n-3) -675*a(n-4) +378*a(n-5) +3291*a(n-6) +4937*a(n-7) -1247*a(n-8) -12054*a(n-9) -12369*a(n-10) -5436*a(n-11) -816*a(n-12) +744*a(n-13) +364*a(n-14) +100*a(n-15) for n>16
EXAMPLE
Some solutions for n=3
..1..0..2..2....0..0..1..1....0..0..2..1....0..0..0..2....1..1..1..2
..0..0..0..0....2..1..0..2....2..1..1..1....0..1..1..2....1..2..1..1
..2..2..0..0....0..0..0..2....2..1..1..2....1..2..2..2....1..1..1..1
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A244764 A089571 A196455 * A221583 A091464 A015693
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
R. H. Hardin Oct 16 2012
STATUS
approved