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%S 0,9,75,294,810,1815,3549,6300,10404,16245,24255,34914,48750,66339,
%T 88305,115320,148104,187425,234099,288990,353010,427119,512325,609684,
%U 720300,845325,985959,1143450,1319094,1514235,1730265,1968624,2230800,2518329,2832795
%N Number of regular polygons that can be drawn with vertices on a centered hexagonal grid with side length n.
%C The only regular polygons that can be drawn with vertices on the centered hexagonal grid are equilateral triangles and regular hexagons.
%H Peter Kagey, <a href="/A339483/b339483.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000</a>
%H Burkard Polster, <a href="https://youtu.be/sDfzCIWpS7Q">What does this prove? Some of the most gorgeous visual "shrink" proofs ever invented</a>, Mathologer video (2020).
%H <a href="/index/Rec#order_05">Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (5, -10, 10, -5, 1).
%F a(n) = A000537(n) + A008893(n).
%F a(n) = (1/2)*(n+1)*n*(2*n+1)^2.
%F a(n) = 3*A180324(n).
%e There are a(2) = 75 regular polygons that can be drawn on the centered hexagonal grid with side length 2: A000537(2) = 9 regular hexagons and A008893(n) = 66 equilateral triangles.
%e The nine hexagons are:
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%e 1 1 7
%e which are marked with the number of ways to draw the hexagons up to translation.
%e The 66 equilateral triangles are:
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%e 24 14 12 12 2 2
%e which are marked with the number of ways to draw the triangles up to translation and dihedral action of the hexagon.
%Y Cf. A000537 (regular hexagons), A008893 (equilateral triangles).
%Y Cf. A338323 (cubic grid).
%Y Cf. A003215.
%K nonn
%O 0,2
%A _Peter Kagey_, Dec 06 2020