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

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Mon Apr 25 05:16:51 CEST 2016


I had no luck looking for a g.f. No surprise, since you didn't
find anything!

Best regards
Neil

Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation.
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On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 9:41 PM, Ron Hardin <rhhardin at att.net> wrote:

> Sent.  If there were going to be a linear recurrence for column 3, I'd
> expect about order 18, and perhaps only for n>something, letting initial
> conditions settle down.  Which hasn't turned up for me.
>  rhhardin at mindspring.com rhhardin at att.net (either)
>
>
>       From: Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com>
>  To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
>  Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 9:04 PM
>  Subject: [seqfan] Re: No isosceles triangles in a square grid, continued
>
> Ron, sometimes one has more luck looking for a generating function
> than for a recurrence.  If you send me the 94 terms from Column 3 I'll give
> it a shot.
>
> 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 Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Ron Hardin <rhhardin at att.net> wrote:
>
> > T(n,k)=Number of nXk 0..1 arrays with exactly n+k-2 having value 1 and no
> > three 1s forming an isosceles right triangle
> >
> >
> > ..1....2.....3......4......5......6......7......8......9
> > ..2....6....10.....21.....34.....62....100....171....276
> > ..3...10....24.....24....107....236....499...1228...2753
> > ..4...21....24.....60....210....637...1840...5792..18556
> > ..5...34...107....210....768...1898...8211..37402.192579
> > ..6...62...236....637...1898...7468..26052.138476.831738
> > ..7..100...499...1840...8211..26052.131056.648178.......
> > ..8..171..1228...5792..37402.138476.648178..............
> > ..9..276..2753..18556.192579.831738.....................
> > .10..458..6292..54034.635086............................
> > .11..740.14751.160246...................................
> > .12.1211.34824..........................................
> > .13.1958................................................
> > .14.....................................................
> > So far only cols 1 and 2 have recurrences
> > Empirical for column k:
> > k=1: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)
> > k=2: a(n)=a(n-1)+3*a(n-2)-2*a(n-3)-3*a(n-4)+a(n-5)+a(n-6)
> > Column 3 does not look promising for a recurrence, after 94 terms.
> > work not double-checked! rhhardin at mindspring.com rhhardin at att.net
> (either)
> >
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