A088658 Number of triangles in an n X n unit grid that have minimal possible area (of 1/2).

0, 4, 32, 124, 320, 716, 1328, 2340, 3792, 5852, 8544, 12260, 16864, 22916, 30272, 39188, 49824, 62948, 78080, 96348, 117232, 141260, 168480, 200292, 235680, 276100, 321056, 371484, 427024, 489900, 558112, 634724, 718432, 810116, 909600, 1018388, 1135136, 1263828, 1402304, 1551908

Offset: 1

Author

Yuval Dekel (dekelyuval(AT)hotmail.com), Nov 21 2003

Keywords

• nonn

Examples

			a(2)=4 because 4 (isosceles right) triangles with area 1/2 can be placed on a 2 X 2 grid.
		

Links

• Ray Chandler, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000
• N. J. A. Sloane, Families of Essentially Identical Sequences, Mar 24 2021 (Includes this sequence)

Crossrefs

Cf. A045996.

The following eight sequences are all essentially the same. The simplest is A115004(n), which we denote by z(n). Then A088658(n) = 4*z(n-1); A114043(n) = 2*z(n-1)+2*n^2-2*n+1; A114146(n) = 2*A114043(n); A115005(n) = z(n-1)+n*(n-1); A141255(n) = 2*z(n-1)+2*n*(n-1); A290131(n) = z(n-1)+(n-1)^2; A306302(n) = z(n)+n^2+2*n. - N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 04 2020

Programs

Mathematica

z[n_] := Sum[(n - i + 1)(n - j + 1) Boole[GCD[i, j] == 1], {i, n}, {j, n}];
a[n_] := 4 z[n - 1];
Array[a, 40] (* Jean-François Alcover, Mar 24 2020 *)

Python

from sympy import totient
def A088658(n): return 4*(n-1)**2 + 4*sum(totient(i)*(n-i)*(2*n-i) for i in range(2,n)) # Chai Wah Wu, Aug 15 2021

Formula

a(n+1) = 4*A115004(n).

a(n) = 4*(n-1)^2 + 4*Sum_{i=2..n-1} (n-i)*(2n-i)*phi(i). - Chai Wah Wu, Aug 15 2021

Extensions

a(7)-a(28) from Ray Chandler, May 03 2011

Corrected and extended by Ray Chandler, May 18 2011