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A262719 a(n) is the smallest nonnegative k such that there is no 3 X 3 matrix with entries in {1,...,n} whose determinant is k. 1

%I #16 Oct 18 2015 12:23:07

%S 1,6,21,55,110,203,357,544,808,1177,1670,2215,2865,3599,4558,5621,

%T 6637,8041,9769,11413,13394,15593,17683,20317,23249,26063,29506,33287,

%U 37461,41692,46306,50707,55667,61723,67547,73939,80767,87941,94913,101613,111422

%N a(n) is the smallest nonnegative k such that there is no 3 X 3 matrix with entries in {1,...,n} whose determinant is k.

%H Hiroaki Yamanouchi, <a href="/A262719/b262719.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..50</a>

%e For n=1, the only matrix is the matrix of all 1s, which has determinant 0. Hence, a(1)=1.

%o (Python)

%o from itertools import product,groupby,count

%o .

%o def det(m):

%o ...a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i = m

%o ...return abs(a*(e*i-f*h)-b*(d*i-f*g)+c*(d*h-e*g))

%o .

%o def a262719(n):

%o ...s = list(product(range(1,n+1),repeat=9))

%o ...i = 0

%o ...for k,ms in groupby(sorted(s,key=det),key=det):

%o ......if k!=i:

%o .........return i

%o ......i += 1

%o ...return i

%K nonn

%O 1,2

%A _Christian Perfect_, Sep 28 2015

%E a(7)-a(41) from _Hiroaki Yamanouchi_, Oct 17 2015

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