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A334617
a(n) is the number of ways to tile a size n staircase polyomino with staircase polyominoes.
1
1, 2, 8, 57, 806, 20840, 1038266, 97115638, 17213517207, 5768580741287
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
A size-n staircase polynomo is a polyomino consisting of n left-aligned rows in increasing length of 1, 2, ..., n. Rotations of staircase polyominoes are also polyominoes.
LINKS
Code Golf Stack Exchange user "Bubbler", Tiling a staircase with staircases.
EXAMPLE
For n = 3 the a(3) = 8 tilings are:
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+---+---+---+, +---+---+---+, + +---+---+, +---+ +---+,
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+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+ +---+---+---+ +---+---+---+
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+---+---+ +---+---+ +---+---+ + +---+
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+---+ +---+, + +---+---+, +---+ +---+, + +---+.
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CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,more
AUTHOR
Peter Kagey, Sep 08 2020
EXTENSIONS
a(8) from Seiichi Manyama, Sep 09 2020
a(9)-a(10) from Bert Dobbelaere, Sep 12 2020
STATUS
approved