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A244695
Number of length n+4 0..3 arrays with no five consecutive elements with pattern ababa or abbba (with a!=b) and new values 0..3 introduced in 0..3 order
1
49, 176, 661, 2540, 9858, 38440, 150208, 587527, 2299087, 8998528, 35223120, 137880423, 539741489, 2112870328, 8271068957, 32378091171, 126748027162, 496170960208, 1942323447926, 7603469333490, 29764737739051, 116517814264327
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Column 3 of A244702
LINKS
FORMULA
Empirical: a(n) = 5*a(n-1) -3*a(n-2) -5*a(n-3) +a(n-4) -3*a(n-5) +4*a(n-6) -4*a(n-7) +a(n-8) +3*a(n-9) +2*a(n-11) -a(n-12) +a(n-13)
EXAMPLE
Some solutions for n=6
..0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0....0
..1....1....0....1....1....1....1....0....1....1....1....1....1....1....1....1
..0....1....0....2....1....1....2....0....2....2....0....1....1....2....2....2
..2....0....1....3....2....2....0....1....1....3....2....2....0....0....1....2
..1....2....2....1....3....0....3....1....2....1....0....3....2....2....0....2
..3....3....1....3....2....0....1....0....2....0....1....2....2....1....0....2
..0....0....3....2....2....2....0....2....1....0....3....2....3....3....3....3
..3....2....3....1....3....1....2....1....0....2....0....3....1....2....1....1
..0....1....3....2....2....2....2....3....1....2....0....1....3....2....2....2
..1....1....0....1....1....0....0....2....0....0....1....0....3....0....1....1
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A258060 A039686 A038628 * A244179 A379550 A244180
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
R. H. Hardin, Jul 04 2014
STATUS
approved