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A269092
Number of n X 3 0..3 arrays with some element plus some horizontally or vertically adjacent neighbor totalling three exactly once.
1
24, 1152, 31296, 715320, 15024096, 300056400, 5795398368, 109294975080, 2024660774592, 36988673403168, 668280340085760, 11964667932759960, 212595089870143008, 3753382504394332656, 65903307050002080672
OFFSET
1,1
LINKS
FORMULA
Empirical: a(n) = 36*a(n-1) - 378*a(n-2) + 972*a(n-3) - 729*a(n-4) for n>5.
Empirical g.f.: 24*x*(1 + 12*x - 46*x^2 + 33*x^3 + 9*x^4) / (1 - 18*x + 27*x^2)^2. - Colin Barker, Jan 19 2019
EXAMPLE
Some solutions for n=3:
..1..1..0. .2..0..0. .0..1..0. .2..0..1. .1..2..3. .1..1..0. .0..0..2
..3..3..1. .0..0..1. .0..0..2. .3..1..1. .3..3..3. .1..3..2. .0..0..2
..0..1..0. .2..2..1. .2..1..0. .1..3..2. .2..3..3. .2..2..3. .1..1..2
CROSSREFS
Column 3 of A269097.
Sequence in context: A160260 A268149 A114051 * A010562 A080775 A191744
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
R. H. Hardin, Feb 19 2016
STATUS
approved