[seqfan] Re: Parking lot for bad drivers

[Neil Sloane]

Veikko, Yes, please submit your version!

Best regards
Neil

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On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Veikko Pohjola <veikko at nordem.fi> wrote:

> Dear seqfans,
>
> I am considering to submit my version of this parking lot problem (if it
> has not been done yet). The version is what I did call misinterpreted,
> because it refers to an idealized model of the whole: cars which can move
> horizontally to any direction and a parking lot which is an open square
> with permeable borders. It is thus just a mathematical excercise. The task
> is to find for an nxn square the maximum coverage by the occupied
> 1x1-spaces under the constraint that no rows of three occupied spaces can
> appear vertically, horizontally and diagonally.
>
> Actually we have a tiling problem here. The maximum coverage of an nxn
> square can be obtained with a 3x3-size macrotile, but some extra challenge
> is offered by the evidence that a macrotile of one types can solve only 2/3
> of the cases while another, symmetrical, is necessary to solve the rest.
>
> The sequence of the maximum numbers of occupied spaces in an nxn square
> starts as follows: 1, 4, 6, 9, 16, 20, 25, 36, 40, 49, 64, 68, 81, ... (not
> in OEIS).
>
> The original parking lot problem was launched elsewhere and then discussed
> by many other people. Thus, I will proceed to submission of this version
> only if nobody objects.
>
> Regards,
> Veikko
>
>
> Vladimir Shevelev kirjoitti 19.7.2015 kello 12.47:
>
> > On the other hand, if to mean the initial problem on drivers, in case
> n=15
> > we have 102 cars:
> >
> > XX_XX_XX_XX_XX_
> > ______________X
> > XX_XX_XX_XX_X_X
> > XX_XX_XX_XX_XX_
> >
> > XX_XX_XX_XX_X_X
> > XX_XX_XX_XX_XX_
> >
> > XX_XX_XX_XX_X_X
> > XX_XX_XX_XX_X_X
> >
> > XX_XX_XX_XX__XX
> > XX_XX_XX_XX_XX_
> > ______________X
> > XX_XX_XX_XX_X_X
> >
> > I get 1,2,4,8,12,17,24,30,38,48,56,66,80,90,102,...
> > (not in OEIS).
> > Conjecture: 1) if n==1 (mod 3), then a(1)=1,
> > a(n) = 4*(n-1)*(n+2)/9, n>=4;
> > 2) if n==2 (mod 3), then a(n) = 2*(n+1)*(2*n-1)/9, n>=2.
> > 3) if n==0 (mod 3), then a(n) = 4*(n/3)^2+x_n, n>=6. where x_n
> > are small additives which till now I do not know: x_3=0, x_6=1, x_9=2,
> x_12=2, x_15=2.
> >
> > Note that up to n=8, earlier Rob had 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 21, 26.
> > However, for n=6 we have 17 cars
> >
> > XX_XX_
> > _____X
> > XX_X_X
> > XX_XX
> > ______
> > XX_XX
> >
> > while for n=7 we have 24 cars:
> >
> > XX_XX_X
> > _______
> > XX_XX_X
> > XX_XX_X
> > _______
> > XX_XX_X
> > _X_XX_X
> >
> > and for n=8, as I have already written, we have 30 cars
> > (Veikko's result which was confirmed by me in a simpler variant).
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Vladimir
>
>
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