A242636 Number of tilings of a 4 X n rectangle using tetrominoes of shapes L, Z, O.

1, 0, 3, 12, 23, 94, 289, 842, 2771, 8510, 26411, 83122, 258199, 805914, 2517287, 7846960, 24490017, 76416244, 238387767, 743840496, 2320800841, 7240890040, 22592311143, 70488834118, 219928631821, 686190651342, 2140948175385, 6679872756528, 20841562274863

Offset

0,3

Links

Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000

Nicolas Bělohoubek and Antonín Slavík, L-Tetromino Tilings and Two-Color Integer Compositions, Univ. Karlova (Czechia, 2025). See p. 10.

Wikipedia, Tetromino

Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,6,13,3,-18,-13,-3,1,-2,-4,0,-2).

Formula

G.f.: (x^6-x^5-2*x^4+x^3+3*x^2-1) / (-2*x^12 -4*x^10 -2*x^9 +x^8 -3*x^7 -13*x^6 -18*x^5 +3*x^4 +13*x^3 +6*x^2 -1).

Example

a(3) = 12:
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Maple

gf:= (x^6-x^5-2*x^4+x^3+3*x^2-1) / (-2*x^12 -4*x^10 -2*x^9 +x^8 -3*x^7 -13*x^6 -18*x^5 +3*x^4 +13*x^3 +6*x^2 -1):
a:= n-> coeff(series(gf, x, n+1), x, n):
seq(a(n), n=0..40);

Crossrefs

Cf. A084480, A174248, A226322, A230031, A232497, A233139, A233191, A233266.

Sequence in context: A154138 A332349 A354529 * A012469 A103449 A030571

Adjacent sequences: A242633 A242634 A242635 * A242637 A242638 A242639

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Alois P. Heinz, May 19 2014

Status

approved