login

Year-end appeal: Please make a donation to the OEIS Foundation to support ongoing development and maintenance of the OEIS. We are now in our 61st year, we have over 378,000 sequences, and we’ve reached 11,000 citations (which often say “discovered thanks to the OEIS”).

A269053
Number of 2 X n 0..2 arrays with some element plus some horizontally, diagonally or antidiagonally adjacent neighbor totalling two not more than once.
1
9, 42, 102, 360, 1068, 3288, 9864, 29472, 87312, 257184, 753504, 2197632, 6383808, 18478464, 53318784, 153414144, 440293632, 1260710400, 3602253312, 10273007616, 29245172736, 83119822848, 235886217216, 668491456512, 1892026552320
OFFSET
1,1
LINKS
FORMULA
Empirical: a(n) = 4*a(n-1) - 8*a(n-3) - 4*a(n-4).
Empirical g.f.: 3*x*(3 + 2*x - 22*x^2 + 8*x^3) / (1 - 2*x - 2*x^2)^2. - Colin Barker, Jan 18 2019
EXAMPLE
Some solutions for n=4:
..1..2..2..2. .2..1..2..1. .0..1..2..1. .1..0..0..1. .1..0..0..1
..2..2..2..1. .2..1..0..0. .0..1..2..1. .0..1..0..0. .0..0..1..0
CROSSREFS
Row 2 of A269052.
Sequence in context: A075233 A062783 A172464 * A027441 A000971 A061927
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
R. H. Hardin, Feb 18 2016
STATUS
approved