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A220561
Number of ways to reciprocally link elements of an nX7 array either to themselves or to exactly one horizontal or antidiagonal neighbor
1
21, 1544, 101052, 6743873, 449429440, 29955561052, 1996515036228, 133064181801048, 8868465829053416, 591065515195237024, 39393331961841054032, 2625486595153945514656, 174983417444316851450400
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Column 7 of A220562
LINKS
FORMULA
Empirical: a(n) = 85*a(n-1) -1330*a(n-2) +7350*a(n-3) -15316*a(n-4) +12720*a(n-5) -3168*a(n-6) for n>9
EXAMPLE
Some solutions for n=3 0=self 3=ne 4=w 6=e 7=sw (reciprocal directions total 10)
..0..0..0..0..0..7..0....0..0..0..0..7..6..4....0..0..0..0..0..6..4
..0..6..4..0..3..6..4....6..4..7..3..0..0..0....6..4..6..4..6..4..0
..6..4..6..4..0..0..0....0..3..0..6..4..0..0....6..4..0..0..6..4..0
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A035319 A278323 A301432 * A239267 A258305 A081786
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
R. H. Hardin Dec 16 2012
STATUS
approved