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A000170 Number of ways of placing n nonattacking queens on an n X n board.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 0, 0, 2, 10, 4, 40, 92, 352, 724, 2680, 14200, 73712, 365596, 2279184, 14772512, 95815104, 666090624, 4968057848, 39029188884, 314666222712, 2691008701644, 24233937684440, 227514171973736, 2207893435808352, 22317699616364044, 234907967154122528
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Author

N. J. A. Sloane

Keywords

Comments

For n > 3, a(n) is the number of maximum independent vertex sets in the n X n queen graph. - Eric W. Weisstein, Jun 20 2017
Number of nodes on level n of the backtrack tree for the n queens problem (a(n) = A319284(n, n)). - Peter Luschny, Sep 18 2018
Number of permutations of [1...n] such that |p(j)-p(i)| != j-i for iXiangyu Chen, Dec 24 2020
M. Simkin shows that the number of ways to place n mutually nonattacking queens on an n X n chessboard is ((1 +/- o(1))*n*exp(-c))^n, where c = 1.942 +/- 0.003. These are approximately (0.143*n)^n configurations. - Peter Luschny, Oct 07 2021

Examples

			a(2) = a(3) = 0, since on 2 X 2 and 3 X 3 chessboards there are no solutions.
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a(4) = 2:
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  +---------+ +---------+
a(5) = 10:
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a(6) = 4:
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- _Hugo Pfoertner_, Mar 17 2019

References

  • M. Gardner, The Unexpected Hanging, pp. 190-2, Simon & Shuster NY 1969
  • Jieh Hsiang, Yuh-Pyng Shieh and Yao-Chiang Chen, The cyclic complete mappings counting problems, in Problems and Problem Sets for ATP, volume 02-10 of DIKU technical reports, G. Sutcliffe, J. Pelletier and C. Suttner, eds., 2002.
  • D. E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Pre-fascicle 5B, Introduction to Backtracking, 7.2.2. Backtrack programming. 2018.
  • M. Kraitchik, The Problem of The Queens, Mathematical Recreations, 2nd ed., New York, Dover, 1953, pp. 247-256.
  • Massimo Nocentini, "An algebraic and combinatorial study of some infinite sequences of numbers supported by symbolic and logic computation", PhD Thesis, University of Florence, 2019. See Ex. 67.
  • W. W. Rouse Ball and H. S. M. Coxeter, Mathematical Recreations and Essays, 13th ed., New York, Dover, 1987, pp. 166-172 (The Eight Queens Problem).
  • M. A. Sainte-Laguë, Les Réseaux (ou Graphes), Mémorial des Sciences Mathématiques, Fasc. 18, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1926, p. 47.
  • N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
  • N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
  • R. J. Walker, An enumerative technique for a class of combinatorial problems, pp. 91-94 of Proc. Sympos. Applied Math., vol. 10, Amer. Math. Soc., 1960.
  • M. B. Wells, Elements of Combinatorial Computing. Pergamon, Oxford, 1971, p. 238.

Links

Crossrefs

Cf. A002562, A065256.
Cf. A036464 (2Q), A047659 (3Q), A061994 (4Q), A108792 (5Q), A176186 (6Q).
Cf. A099152, A006717, A051906, A319284 (backtrack trees).
Cf. A260318, A260319, A260320.
Main diagonal of A348129.

Formula

Strong conjecture: there is a constant c around 2.54 such that a(n) is asymptotic to n!/c^n; weak conjecture: lim_{n -> infinity} (1/n) * log(n!/a(n)) = constant = 0.90.... - Benoit Cloitre, Nov 10 2002
Lim_{n->infinity} a(n)^(1/n)/n = exp(-A359441) = 0.1431301... [Simkin 2021]. - Vaclav Kotesovec, Jan 01 2023
a(n) = 8 * A260320(n) + 4 * A260319(n) + 2 * A260318(n) for n >= 2 (see Kraitchik reference). - Jason Bard, Aug 12 2025

Extensions

Terms for n=21-23 computed by Sylvain PION (Sylvain.Pion(AT)sophia.inria.fr) and Joel-Yann FOURRE (Joel-Yann.Fourre(AT)ens.fr).
a(24) from Kenji KISE (kis(AT)is.uec.ac.jp), Sep 01 2004
a(25) from Objectweb ProActive INRIA Team (proactive(AT)objectweb.org), Jun 11 2005 [Communicated by Alexandre Di Costanzo (Alexandre.Di_Costanzo(AT)sophia.inria.fr)]. This calculation took about 53 years of CPU time.
a(25) has been confirmed by the NTU 25Queen Project at National Taiwan University and Ming Chuan University, led by Yuh-Pyng (Arping) Shieh, Jul 26 2005. This computation took 26613 days CPU time.
The NQueens-at-Home web site gives a different value for a(24), 226732487925864. Thanks to Goran Fagerstrom for pointing this out. I do not know which value is correct. I have therefore created a new entry, A140393, which gives the NQueens-at-home version of the sequence. - N. J. A. Sloane, Jun 18 2008
It now appears that this sequence (A000170) is correct and A140393 is wrong. - N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 08 2008
Added a(26) as calculated by Queens(AT)TUD [http://queens.inf.tu-dresden.de/]. - Thomas B. Preußer, Jul 11 2009
Added a(27) as calculated by the Q27 Project [https://github.com/preusser/q27]. - Thomas B. Preußer, Sep 23 2016
a(0) = 1 prepended by Joerg Arndt, Sep 16 2018

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