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A229696
Number of defective 3-colorings of a 3 X n 0..2 array connected horizontally and antidiagonally with exactly two mistakes, and colors introduced in row-major 0..2 order.
1
0, 40, 626, 5077, 35825, 230383, 1400413, 8184819, 46455457, 257724695, 1403839397, 7532391243, 39908047865, 209177764015, 1086276818845, 5595663437379, 28620024582289, 145460267764487, 735134318022101
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Row 3 of A229694.
LINKS
FORMULA
Empirical: a(n) = 15*a(n-1) - 81*a(n-2) + 185*a(n-3) - 162*a(n-4) + 60*a(n-5) - 8*a(n-6) for n > 10.
EXAMPLE
Some solutions for n=3:
0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
0 1 1 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 1 2 2 0 2
2 1 0 2 1 2 0 2 1 0 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 0
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A002847 A057808 A269778 * A247410 A183464 A359932
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
R. H. Hardin, Sep 27 2013
STATUS
approved