OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
Number of aa-avoiding words of length n on alphabet {a,b,c,d,e}. - Tanya Khovanova, Jan 11 2007
Binomial transform of A164589 and second binomial transform of A096886. [Al Hakanson (hawkuu(AT)gmail.com), Aug 17 2009]
From Johannes W. Meijer, Aug 01 2010: (Start)
The a(n) represent the number of n-move paths of a chess king on a 3 X 3 board that end or start in a given side square m (m = 2, 4, 6, 8).
Inverse binomial transform of A001109 (without the leading 0).
(End)
Number of independent vertex subsets of the graph obtained by attaching two pendant edges to each vertex of the path graph P_n (see A235116). Example: a(1)=5; indeed, P_1 is the one-vertex graph and after attaching two pendant vertices we obtain the path graph ABC; the independent vertex subsets are: empty, {A}, {B}, {C}, and {A,C}.
Number of simple paths from corner to diagonally opposite corner on a 2 X n grid with king moves allowed. - Andrew Howroyd, Nov 06 2019
Number of 4-compositions of n+1 restricted to parts 1 and 2 (and allowed zeros); see Hopkins & Ouvry reference. - Brian Hopkins, Aug 16 2020
LINKS
Indranil Ghosh, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1459
Joerg Arndt, Matters Computational (The Fxtbook)
D. Birmajer, J. B. Gil, and M. D. Weiner, On the Enumeration of Restricted Words over a Finite Alphabet, J. Int. Seq. 19 (2016) # 16.1.3, Example 7.
Martin Burtscher, Igor Szczyrba, and Rafał Szczyrba, Analytic Representations of the n-anacci Constants and Generalizations Thereof, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 18 (2015), Article 15.4.5.
Brian Hopkins and Stéphane Ouvry, Combinatorics of Multicompositions, arXiv:2008.04937 [math.CO], 2020.
Milan Janjic, On Linear Recurrence Equations Arising from Compositions of Positive Integers, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 18 (2015), Article 15.4.7.
Tanya Khovanova, Recursive Sequences
Mike Oakes, KingMovesForPrimes.
Zak Seidov, KingMovesForPrimes.
Zak Seidov et al., New puzzle? King moves for primes, digest of 28 messages in primenumbers group, Jul 13 - Jul 23, 2003. [Cached copy]
Sleephound, KingMovesForPrimes.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (4,4).
FORMULA
a(n) = (Sqrt[2]/32)((2+Sqrt[8])^(n+2)-(2-Sqrt[8])^(n+2))
a(n) = 4*a(n-1) + 4*a(n-2). - Tanya Khovanova, Jan 11 2007
Limit(a(n+k)/a(k),k=infinity) = A084128(n) + 2*A057087(n-1)*sqrt(2). - Johannes W. Meijer, Aug 01 2010
EXAMPLE
a(3) = 116 = 5^3 - 9 (aaa, aab, aac, aad, aae, baa, caa, daa, eaa). [Al Hakanson (hawkuu(AT)gmail.com), Aug 17 2009]
MAPLE
with(LinearAlgebra): nmax:=19; m:=2; A[5]:= [1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1]: A:=Matrix([[0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0], [1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0], [0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0], [1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0], A[5], [0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1], [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0], [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1], [0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0]]): for n from 0 to nmax do B(n):=A^n: a(n):= add(B(n)[m, k], k=1..9): od: seq(a(n), n=0..nmax); # Johannes W. Meijer, Aug 01 2010
# second Maple program:
a:= n-> (<<0|1>, <4|4>>^n. <<1, 5>>)[1, 1]:
seq(a(n), n=0..30); # Alois P. Heinz, Oct 12 2022
MATHEMATICA
Table[(Sqrt[2]/32)((2+Sqrt[8])^(n+2)-(2-Sqrt[8])^(n+2)), {n, 0, 19}]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Zak Seidov, Jul 17 2003
EXTENSIONS
Offset changed and edited by Johannes W. Meijer, Jul 15 2010
STATUS
approved