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%I A006230 M4902 #42 Aug 18 2025 23:37:03 %S A006230 1,13,73,301,1081,3613,11593,36301,111961,342013,1038313,3139501, %T A006230 9467641,28501213,85700233,257493901,773268121,2321377213,6967277353, %U A006230 20908123501,62736953401,188236026013,564758409673,1694375892301,5083329003481,15250389663613 %N A006230 Bitriangular permutations. %C A006230 Prepending the term 0 and setting the offset to 0 makes this sequence row 3 of A371761. In this form it can be generated by the Akiyama-Tanigawa algorithm for powers (see the Python script). - _Peter Luschny_, Apr 12 2024 %D A006230 N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence). %H A006230 Colin Barker, <a href="/A006230/b006230.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 4..1000</a> %H A006230 Irving Kaplansky and John Riordan, <a href="http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1077473616">The problem of the rooks and its applications</a>, Duke Mathematical Journal 13.2 (1946): 259-268. %H A006230 Simon Plouffe, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.4975">Approximations de séries génératrices et quelques conjectures</a>, Dissertation, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1992; arXiv:0911.4975 [math.NT], 2009. %H A006230 Simon Plouffe, <a href="/A000051/a000051_2.pdf">1031 Generating Functions</a>, Appendix to Thesis, Montreal, 1992 %H A006230 J. Riordan, <a href="/A006230/a006230.pdf">Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, Dec. 1976</a> %H A006230 <a href="/index/Rec#order_03">Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (6,-11,6). %F A006230 a(n) = 12*S(n-2) + 1, with S(n)=A000392(n) the Stirling numbers of second kind, 3rd column. - _Ralf Stephan_, Jul 07 2003 %F A006230 a(n+3) = Sum_{i=1..3} A008277(n,i) * A008277(3,i) * i!^2. - _Brian Parsonnet_, Feb 25 2011 %F A006230 From _Colin Barker_, Dec 27 2017: (Start) %F A006230 G.f.: x^4*(1 + x)*(1 + 6*x) / ((1 - x)*(1 - 2*x)*(1 - 3*x)). %F A006230 a(n) = 12*(3 - 3*2^(n-2) + 3^(n-2))/6 + 1. %F A006230 a(n) = 6*a(n-1) - 11*a(n-2) + 6*a(n-3) for n>6. (End) %p A006230 A006230:=-(z+1)*(6*z+1)/(z-1)/(3*z-1)/(2*z-1); # Conjectured by _Simon Plouffe_ in his 1992 dissertation. %t A006230 12*StirlingS2[n+1, 3]+1; (* _Brian Parsonnet_, Feb 25 2011 *) %t A006230 Sum[ StirlingS2[n,i] * StirlingS2[ 3,i ] * i!^2, {i,3} ]; (* alternative, _Brian Parsonnet_, Feb 25 2011 *) %o A006230 (PARI) %o A006230 Vec(x^4*(1 + x)*(1 + 6*x) / ((1 - x)*(1 - 2*x)*(1 - 3*x)) + O(x^40)) %o A006230 \\ _Colin Barker_, Dec 27 2017 %o A006230 (Python) # Using the Akiyama-Tanigawa algorithm for powers from A371761. %o A006230 print(ATPowList(3, 27)) # _Peter Luschny_, Apr 12 2024 %Y A006230 Cf. A136301 (row 4), A371761 (row 3). %K A006230 nonn,easy %O A006230 4,2 %A A006230 _N. J. A. Sloane_