[seqfan] Re: No right isosceles triangles in a square grid

[Neil Sloane]

Rob, Yes, you are right! I missed that. But I still expect that the answer
will be 2n-2 for n>1,
and so this sequence (A271907) will soon be replaced by a comment in a271906

Best regards
Neil

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On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Rob Pratt <Rob.Pratt at sas.com> wrote:

> This comment seems wrong;
> " By using two edges of the grid minus their intersection we get a(n) >=
> 2n-2. - N. J. A. Sloane, Apr 22 2016"
>
> For example, the cells (1,5), (4,1), and (9,1) lie in such a set but form
> an isosceles triangle.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Neil
> Sloane
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 2:50 PM
> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
> Subject: [seqfan] Re: No right isosceles triangles in a square grid
>
> If you did not find any clever solutions for n <= 11, I bet we have  a(n) =
> 2n-2 for all n>1.
>
> Best regards
> Neil
>
> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation.
> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA.
> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
> Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com
> Email: njasloane at gmail.com
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Giovanni Resta <g.resta at iit.cnr.it>
> wrote:
>
> > Il 22/04/2016 17:34, Neil Sloane ha scritto:
> >
> >> 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 14, 16, 20
> >>>
> >> Could there be a typo? Did you mean to say
> >>
> > Yes, sorry. I did make a mess merging results from Mathematica,
> > lp_solve and cplex.
> > It is 1,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18 (I'm checking again a(11)=20 because I
> > deleted the result),  i.e.,  it seems simply a(1)=1 and a(n)=2n-2 up
> > to a(10).
> >
> > I'm going to check again the results when I prepare the pictures.
> > Sorry for the error,
> >
> > Giovanni
> >
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