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A220685
Number of ways to reciprocally link elements of an nX5 array either to themselves or to exactly two horizontal, vertical or antidiagonal neighbors
1
1, 114, 5851, 312603, 15978924, 822649205, 42362190063, 2181341369109, 112319870453715, 5783510938076077, 297801401665428743, 15334225523450669062, 789581475759386788696, 40656693721278204870112
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Column 5 of A220688
LINKS
FORMULA
Empirical: a(n) = 35*a(n-1) +673*a(n-2) +8237*a(n-3) +46927*a(n-4) -112480*a(n-5) -3992526*a(n-6) -35333024*a(n-7) -169366609*a(n-8) -361164394*a(n-9) +47195630*a(n-10) +13502054*a(n-11) +495005695*a(n-12) +6209070799*a(n-13) +5791334536*a(n-14) -11945755468*a(n-15) -10812604841*a(n-16) +3004142790*a(n-17) -8986269878*a(n-18) +26749603735*a(n-19) -17268218707*a(n-20) +10625240169*a(n-21) +1286966410*a(n-22) -5196232889*a(n-23) -236330168*a(n-24) +3747662678*a(n-25) -4565014033*a(n-26) +2769440835*a(n-27) -1086425818*a(n-28) +220144889*a(n-29) -12788683*a(n-30) -5653764*a(n-31) +2046130*a(n-32) -331034*a(n-33) +12027*a(n-34) +3632*a(n-35) +36*a(n-36) for n>37
EXAMPLE
Some solutions for n=3 0=self 2=n 3=ne 4=w 6=e 7=sw 8=s (reciprocal directions total 10)
.00.78.68.48.78...00.67.46.46.48...00.00.00.68.48...00.78.68.47.00
.36.24.28.23.27...38.68.48.68.24...00.78.00.28.28...38.27.23.78.00
.00.00.26.34.00...26.24.26.24.00...36.24.00.26.24...23.00.36.24.00
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A221293 A306194 A112485 * A199249 A199193 A188694
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
R. H. Hardin Dec 17 2012
STATUS
approved