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A367279
Place n equally spaced points on each side of a square, and join each of these points by a chord to the 3*n new points on the other three sides: sequence gives number of edges in the resulting planar graph.
4
4, 16, 156, 788, 2880, 6468, 15800, 27828, 49936, 78732, 134656, 173396, 286676, 373004, 495300, 659556, 938328, 1086108, 1525216, 1727060, 2187912, 2724272, 3468932, 3730780, 4781740, 5611000, 6549252, 7404820, 9272476, 9645308, 12278824, 13302464, 15300332, 17565324, 19475404, 20973584
OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
See A367276 for further information. See A367276 and A367278 for images of the square.
FORMULA
a(n) = A367276(n) + A367278(n) - 1 (Euler).
CROSSREFS
Cf. A367276 (vertices), A367277 (interior vertices), A367278 (regions).
Sequence in context: A005739 A279887 A226588 * A318641 A005741 A033911
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Scott R. Shannon, Nov 11 2023
STATUS
approved