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A001813 Quadruple factorial numbers: a(n) = (2n)!/n!.

1, 2, 12, 120, 1680, 30240, 665280, 17297280, 518918400, 17643225600, 670442572800, 28158588057600, 1295295050649600, 64764752532480000, 3497296636753920000, 202843204931727360000, 12576278705767096320000, 830034394580628357120000, 58102407620643984998400000

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Counts binary rooted trees (with out-degree <= 2), embedded in plane, with n labeled end nodes of degree 1. Unlabeled version gives Catalan numbers A000108.
Define a "downgrade" to be the permutation which places the items of a permutation in descending order. We are concerned with permutations that are identical to their downgrades. Only permutations of order 4n and 4n+1 can have this property; the number of permutations of length 4n having this property are equinumerous with those of length 4n+1. If a permutation p has this property then the reversal of this permutation also has it. a(n) = number of permutations of length 4n and 4n+1 that are identical to their downgrades. - Eugene McDonnell (eemcd(AT)mac.com), Oct 26 2003
Number of broadcast schemes in the complete graph on n+1 vertices, K_{n+1}. - Calin D. Morosan (cd_moros(AT)alumni.concordia.ca), Nov 28 2008
Hankel transform is A137565. - Paul Barry, Nov 25 2009
The e.g.f. of 1/a(n) = n!/(2*n)! is (exp(sqrt(x)) + exp(-sqrt(x)) )/2. - Wolfdieter Lang, Jan 09 2012
From Tom Copeland, Nov 15 2014: (Start)
Aerated with intervening zeros (1,0,2,0,12,0,120,...) = a(n) (cf. A123023 and A001147), the e.g.f. is e^(t^2), so this is the base for the Appell sequence with e.g.f. e^(t^2) e^(x*t) = exp(P(.,x),t) (reverse A059344, cf. A099174, A066325 also). P(n,x) = (a. + x)^n with (a.)^n = a_n and comprise the umbral compositional inverses for e^(-t^2)e^(x*t) = exp(UP(.,x),t), i.e., UP(n,P(.,t)) = x^n = P(n,UP(.,t)), e.g., (P(.,t))^n = P(n,t).
Equals A000407*2 with leading 1 added. (End)
a(n) is also the number of square roots of any permutation in S_{4*n} whose disjoint cycle decomposition consists of 2*n transpositions. - Luis Manuel Rivera Martínez, Mar 04 2015
Self-convolution gives A076729. - Vladimir Reshetnikov, Oct 11 2016
For n > 1, it follows from the formula dated Aug 07 2013 that a(n) is a Zumkeller number (A083207). - Ivan N. Ianakiev, Feb 28 2017
For n divisible by 4, a(n/4) is the number of ways to place n points on an n X n grid with pairwise distinct abscissae, pairwise distinct ordinates, and 90-degree rotational symmetry. For n == 1 (mod 4), the number of ways is a((n-1)/4) because the center point can be considered "fixed". For 180-degree rotational symmetry see A006882, for mirror symmetry see A000085, A135401, and A297708. - Manfred Scheucher, Dec 29 2017

			The following permutations of order 8 and their reversals have this property:
  1 7 3 5 2 4 0 6
  1 7 4 2 5 3 0 6
  2 3 7 6 1 0 4 5
  2 4 7 1 6 0 3 5
  3 2 6 7 0 1 5 4
  3 5 1 7 0 6 2 4

D. E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 4, Section 7.2.1.6, Eq. 32.
L. C. Larson, The number of essentially different nonattacking rook arrangements, J. Recreat. Math., 7 (No. 3, 1974), circa pages 180-181.
Eugene McDonnell, "Magic Squares and Permutations" APL Quote-Quad 7.3 (Fall, 1976)
R. W. Robinson, Counting arrangements of bishops, pp. 198-214 of Combinatorial Mathematics IV (Adelaide 1975), Lect. Notes Math., 560 (1976).
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).

N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..100
Marcello Artioli, Giuseppe Dattoli, Silvia Licciardi, and Rosa Maria Pidatella, Hermite and Laguerre Functions: a Unifying Point of View, Università degli Studi di Catania, Sicily, Italy (2019).
Murray Bremner and Martin Markl, Distributive laws between the Three Graces, arXiv:1809.08191 [math.AT], 2018.
R. B. Brent, Generalizing Tuenter's Binomial Sums, J. Int. Seq. 18 (2015) # 15.3.2.
Peter J. Cameron, Some treelike objects, Quart. J. Math. Oxford Ser. (2) 38 (1987), no. 150, 155--183. MR0891613 (89a:05009). See p. 155. - _N. J. A. Sloane_, Apr 18 2014
Peter J. Cameron, Sequences realized by oligomorphic permutation groups, J. Integ. Seqs. Vol. 3 (2000), #00.1.5.
Elliot J. Carr and Matthew J. Simpson, New homogenization approaches for stochastic transport through heterogeneous media, arXiv:1810.08890 [physics.bio-ph], 2018.
W. Y. C. Chen, L. W. Shapiro and L. L. M. Young, Parity reversing involutions on plane trees and 2-Motzkin paths, arXiv:math/0503300 [math.CO], 2005.
Ali Chouria, Vlad-Florin Drǎgoi, and Jean-Gabriel Luque, On recursively defined combinatorial classes and labelled trees, arXiv:2004.04203 [math.CO], 2020.
P. Cvitanovic, Group theory for Feynman diagrams in non-Abelian gauge theories, Phys. Rev. D14 (1976), 1536-1553.
Nick Early, Honeycomb tessellations and canonical bases for permutohedral blades, arXiv:1810.03246 [math.CO], 2018.
John Engbers, David Galvin, and Clifford Smyth, Restricted Stirling and Lah numbers and their inverses, arXiv:1610.05803 [math.CO], 2016. See p. 8.
P. Flajolet and R. Sedgewick, Analytic Combinatorics, 2009; see page 127
S. Goodenough and C. Lavault, On subsets of Riordan subgroups and Heisenberg--Weyl algebra, arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.1894 [cs.DM], 2014.
S. Goodenough and C. Lavault, Overview on Heisenberg—Weyl Algebra and Subsets of Riordan Subgroups, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 22(4) (2015), #P4.16,
H. W. Gould, A class of binomial sums and a series transform, Utilitas Math., 45 (1994), 71-83. (Annotated scanned copy)
A. M. Ibrahim, Extension of factorial concept to negative numbers, Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 19, 2013, 2, 30-42.
INRIA Algorithms Project, Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Structures 115
L. C. Larson, The number of essentially different nonattacking rook arrangements, J. Recreat. Math., 7 (No. 3, 1974), circa pages 180-181. [Annotated scan of pages 180 and 181 only]
Jesús Leaños, Rutilo Moreno, and Luis Manuel Rivera-Martínez, On the number of mth roots of permutations, Australas. J. Combin. 52 (2012), 41-54 (Theorem 1).
Jesús Leaños, Rutilo Moreno, and Luis Manuel Rivera-Martínez, On the number of mth roots of permutations, arXiv:1005.1531 [math.CO], 2010-2011.
Édouard Lucas, Théorie des Nombres, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1891, Vol. 1, p. 221.
R. J. Marsh and P. P. Martin, Pascal arrays: counting Catalan sets, arXiv:math/0612572 [math.CO], 2006.
Calin D. Morosan, On the number of broadcast schemes in networks, Information Processing Letters, Volume 100, Issue 5 (2006), 188-193.
R. A. Proctor, Let's Expand Rota's Twelvefold Way for Counting Partitions!, arXiv:math/0606404 [math.CO], 2006-2007.
C. Radoux, Déterminants de Hankel et théorème de Sylvester, Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, B28b (1992), 9 pp.
J. Riordan, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 03 1975 (with notes by njas)
H. E. Salzer, Coefficients for expressing the first thirty powers in terms of the Hermite polynomials, Math. Comp., 3 (1948), 167-169.
Elena L. Wang and Guoce Xin, On Ward Numbers and Increasing Schröder Trees, arXiv:2507.15654 [math.CO], 2025. See pp. 12-13.
Index to divisibility sequences
Index entries for related partition-counting sequences

Cf. A037224, A048854, A001147, A007696, A008545, A122670 (essentially the same sequence), A000165, A047055, A047657, A084947, A084948, A084949, A010050, A000142, A008275, A000108, A000984, A008276, A000680, A094216.
Catalan(n-1)*M^(n-1)*n! for M=1,2,3,4,5,6: A001813, A052714 (or A144828), A221954, A052734, A221953, A221955.
Cf. A123023, A059344, A099174, A066325, A001700, A000407, A006882.
Cf. A000085, A135401, A297708. - Manfred Scheucher, Jan 07 2018

List([0..20],n->Factorial(2*n)/Factorial(n)); # Muniru A Asiru, Nov 01 2018

[Factorial(2*n)/Factorial(n): n in [0..20]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Oct 09 2018

A001813 := n->(2*n)!/n!;
A001813 := n -> mul(k, k = select(k-> k mod 4 = 2,[$1 .. 4*n])):
seq(A001813(n), n=0..16);  # Peter Luschny, Jun 23 2011

Table[(2n)!/n!, {n,0,20}] (* Harvey P. Dale, May 02 2011 *)

makelist(binomial(n+n, n)*n!,n,0,30); /* Martin Ettl, Nov 05 2012 */

a(n)=binomial(n+n,n)*n! \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jun 15 2011

first(n) = x='x+O('x^n); Vec(serlaplace((1 - 4*x)^(-1/2))) \\ Iain Fox, Jan 01 2018 (corrected by Iain Fox, Jan 11 2018)

from math import factorial
def A001813(n): return factorial(n<<1)//factorial(n) # Chai Wah Wu, Feb 14 2023

[binomial(2*n,n)*factorial(n) for n in range(0, 17)] # Zerinvary Lajos, Dec 03 2009

E.g.f.: (1-4*x)^(-1/2).
a(n) = (2*n)!/n! = Product_{k=0..n-1} (4*k + 2) = A081125(2*n).
Integral representation as n-th moment of a positive function on a positive half-axis: a(n) = Integral_{x=0..oo} x^n*exp(-x/4)/(sqrt(x)*2*sqrt(Pi)) dx, n >= 0. This representation is unique. - Karol A. Penson, Sep 18 2001
Define a'(1)=1, a'(n) = Sum_{k=1..n-1} a'(n-k)*a'(k)*C(n, k); then a(n)=a'(n+1). - Benoit Cloitre, Apr 27 2003
With interpolated zeros (1, 0, 2, 0, 12, ...) this has e.g.f. exp(x^2). - Paul Barry, May 09 2003
a(n) = A000680(n)/A000142(n)*A000079(n) = Product_{i=0..n-1} (4*i + 2) = 4^n*Pochhammer(1/2, n) = 4^n*GAMMA(n+1/2)/sqrt(Pi). - Daniel Dockery (peritus(AT)gmail.com), Jun 13 2003
For asymptotics, see the Robinson paper.
a(k) = (2*k)!/k! = Sum_{i=1..k+1} |A008275(i,k+1)| * k^(i-1). - André F. Labossière, Jun 21 2007
a(n) = 12*A051618(a) n >= 2. - Zerinvary Lajos, Feb 15 2008
a(n) = A000984(n)*A000142(n). - Zerinvary Lajos, Mar 25 2008
a(n) = A016825(n-1)*a(n-1). - Roger L. Bagula, Sep 17 2008
a(n) = (-1)^n*A097388(n). - D. Morosan (cd_moros(AT)alumni.concordia.ca), Nov 28 2008
From Paul Barry, Jan 15 2009: (Start)
G.f.: 1/(1-2x/(1-4x/(1-6x/(1-8x/(1-10x/(1-... (continued fraction);
a(n) = (n+1)!*A000108(n). (End)
a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} A132393(n,k)*2^(2n-k). - Philippe Deléham, Feb 10 2009
G.f.: 1/(1-2x-8x^2/(1-10x-48x^2/(1-18x-120x^2/(1-26x-224x^2/(1-34x-360x^2/(1-42x-528x^2/(1-... (continued fraction). - Paul Barry, Nov 25 2009
a(n) = A173333(2*n,n) for n>0; cf. A006963, A001761. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 19 2010
From Gary W. Adamson, Jul 19 2011: (Start)
a(n) = upper left term of M^n, M = an infinite square production matrix as follows:
  2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
  4, 4, 4, 0, 0, 0, ...
  6, 6, 6, 6, 0, 0, ...
  8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 0, ...
  ...
(End)
a(n) = (-2)^n*Sum_{k=0..n} 2^k*s(n+1,n+1-k), where s(n,k) are the Stirling numbers of the first kind, A048994. - Mircea Merca, May 03 2012
G.f.: 1/Q(0), where Q(k) = 1 + x*(4*k+2) - x*(4*k+4)/Q(k+1); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, May 18 2013
G.f.: 2/G(0), where G(k) = 1 + 1/(1 - x*(8*k+4)/(x*(8*k+4) - 1 + 8*x*(k+1)/G(k+1))); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, May 30 2013
G.f.: G(0)/2, where G(k) = 1 + 1/(1 - 2*x/(2*x + 1/(2*k+1)/G(k+1))); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Jun 01 2013
D-finite with recurrence: a(n) = (4*n-6)*a(n-2) + (4*n-3)*a(n-1), n>=2. - Ivan N. Ianakiev, Aug 07 2013
Sum_{n>=0} 1/a(n) = (exp(1/4)*sqrt(Pi)*erf(1/2) + 2)/2 = 1 + A214869, where erf(x) is the error function. - Ilya Gutkovskiy, Nov 10 2016
Sum_{n>=0} (-1)^n/a(n) = 1 - sqrt(Pi)*erfi(1/2)/(2*exp(1/4)), where erfi(x) is the imaginary error function. - Amiram Eldar, Feb 20 2021
a(n) = 1/([x^n] hypergeom([1], [1/2], x/4)). - Peter Luschny, Sep 13 2024
a(n) = 2^n*n!*JacobiP(n, -1/2, -n, 3). - Peter Luschny, Jan 22 2025
G.f.: 2F0(1,1/2;;4x). - R. J. Mathar, Jun 07 2025

More terms from James Sellers, May 01 2000

A000903 Number of inequivalent ways of placing n nonattacking rooks on n X n board up to rotations and reflections of the board.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 2, 7, 23, 115, 694, 5282, 46066, 456454, 4999004, 59916028, 778525516, 10897964660, 163461964024, 2615361578344, 44460982752488, 800296985768776, 15205638776753680, 304112757426239984, 6386367801916347184

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

			For n=4 the 7 solutions may be taken to be 1234,1243,1324,1423,1432,2143,2413.

L. C. Larson, The number of essentially different nonattacking rook arrangements, J. Recreat. Math., 7 (No. 3, 1974), circa pages 180-181.
R. C. Read, personal communication.
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).
Z. Stankova and J. West, A new class of Wilf-equivalent permutations, J. Algeb. Combin., 15 (2002), 271-290.

N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..100
P. J. Cameron, Sequences realized by oligomorphic permutation groups, J. Integ. Seqs. Vol. 3 (2000), #00.1.5.
L. C. Larson, The number of essentially different nonattacking rook arrangements, J. Recreat. Math., 7 (No. 3, 1974), circa pages 180-181. [Annotated scan of pages 180 and 181 only]
E. Lucas, Théorie des Nombres, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1891, Vol. 1, p. 222.
E. Lucas, Théorie des nombres (annotated scans of a few selected pages)
R. C. Read, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, Oct. 29, 1976
R. W. Robinson, Counting arrangements of bishops, pp. 198-214 of Combinatorial Mathematics IV (Adelaide 1975), Lect. Notes Math., 560 (1976).
R. W. Robinson, Counting arrangements of bishops, pp. 198-214 of Combinatorial Mathematics IV (Adelaide 1975), Lect. Notes Math., 560 (1976). (Annotated scanned copy)
Zvezdelina Stankova-Frenkel and Julian West, A new class of Wilf-equivalent permutations, arXiv:math/0103152 [math.CO], 2001. See Fig. 9.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Rook Number.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Rooks Problem.

Cf. A000142, A037223, A037224, A000085, A005635, A099952, A263685.

Maple programs for A000142, A037223, A122670, A001813, A000085, A000898, A000407, A000902, A000900, A000901, A000899, A000903
P:=n->n!; # Gives A000142
G:=proc(n) local k; k:=floor(n/2); k!*2^k; end; # Gives A037223, A000165
R:=proc(n) local m; if n mod 4 = 2 or n mod 4 = 3 then RETURN(0); fi; m:=floor(n/4); (2*m)!/m!; end; # Gives A122670, A001813
unprotect(D); D:=proc(n) option remember; if n <= 1 then 1 else D(n-1)+(n-1)*D(n-2); fi; end; # Gives A000085
B:=proc(n) option remember; if n <= 1 then RETURN(1); fi; if n mod 2 = 1 then RETURN(B(n-1)); fi; 2*B(n-2) + (n-2)*B(n-4); end; # Gives A000898 (doubled up)
rho:=n->R(n)/2; # Gives A000407, aerated
beta:=n->B(n)/2; # Gives A000902, doubled up
delta:=n->(D(n)-B(n))/2; # Gives A000900
unprotect(gamma); gamma:=n-> if n <= 1 then RETURN(0) else (G(n)-B(n)-R(n))/4; fi; # Gives A000901, doubled up
alpha:=n->P(n)/8-G(n)/8+B(n)/4-D(n)/4; # Gives A000899
unprotect(sigma); sigma:=n-> if n <= 1 then RETURN(1); else P(n)/8+G(n)/8+R(n)/4+D(n)/4; fi; #Gives A000903

c[n_] := Floor[n/2]! 2^Floor[n/2];
r[n_] := If[Mod[n, 4] > 1, 0, m = Floor[n/4]; If[m == 0, 1, (2 m)!/m!]];
d[0] = d[1] = 1; d[n_] := d[n] = (n - 1)d[n - 2] + d[n - 1];
a[1] = 1; a[n_] := (n! + c[n] + 2 r[n] + 2 d[n])/8;
Array[a, 21] (* Jean-François Alcover, Apr 06 2011, after Matthias Engelhardt, further improved by Robert G. Wilson v *)

If n>1 then a(n) = 1/8 * (F(n) + C(n) + 2 * R(n) + 2 * D(n)), where F(n) = A000142(n) [all solutions, i.e., factorials], C(n) = A037223(n) [central symmetric solutions], R(n) = A037224(n) [rotationally symmetric solutions] and D(n) = A000085(n) [symmetric solutions by reflection at a diagonal]. - Matthias Engelhardt, Apr 05 2000

For asymptotics see the Robinson paper.

More terms from David W. Wilson, Jul 13 2003

A037224 Number of permutations p of {1,2,3...,n} that are fixed points under the operation of first reversing p, then taking the inverse.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 12, 12, 0, 0, 120, 120, 0, 0, 1680, 1680, 0, 0, 30240, 30240, 0, 0, 665280, 665280, 0, 0, 17297280, 17297280, 0, 0, 518918400, 518918400, 0, 0, 17643225600, 17643225600, 0, 0, 670442572800, 670442572800, 0, 0, 28158588057600

Offset: 1

Miklos SZABO (mike(AT)ludens.elte.hu)

A122670 is an essentially identical sequence.
Also the number of rotationally symmetric solutions to non-attacking rooks problem on an n X n board.
Reversal of a permutation reflects the associated permutation matrix through an axis parallel to its sides, while inversion reflects the matrix through its main diagonal. The composition of these two operations is rotation by 90 degrees, and so permutations fixed by this composition correspond to rotationally symmetric rook diagrams by taking the associated permutation matrix. [Ian Duff, Mar 09 2007 and Joel B. Lewis, Jun 10 2009]
Equivalently, the number of permutations fixed by first inverting and then reversing. We may also replace "reversing" with "complementing" in the preceding sentences, where the complement of (w(1), ..., w(n)) is (n + 1 - w(1), ..., n + 1 - w(n)). [Joel B. Lewis, Jun 10 2009]

			Let p be the permutation {11,1,9,3,7,5,8,6,10,4,12,2} of {1,2,3,..,12}. Then the reverse Rp of p is {2,12,4,10,6,8,5,7,3,9,1,11} and the inverse IRp of Rp is {11,1,9,3,7,5,8,6,10,4,12,2}. Thus p counts as one of the a(12)=120 fixed-points for n=12.

C. Bebeacua, T. Mansour, A. Postnikov and S. Severini, On the X-rays of permutations, arXiv:math/0506334 [math.CO], 2005.
M. Szabo, Non-attacking Queens Problem Page

Cf. A001813, A033148, A032522, A037223, A122670.

a:= n-> `if`(irem(n, 4, 'm')>1, 0,
        `if`(m=0, 1, (2*m-1)! * 2/(m-1)!)):
seq(a(n), n=1..99);  # Alois P. Heinz, Jan 21 2011

{1}~Join~Table[If[MemberQ[{0, 1}, Mod[n, 4]], (2 # - 1)!*2/(# - 1)! &[Floor[n/4]], 0], {n, 2, 44}] (* Michael De Vlieger, Oct 05 2016 *)

a(n)=
{
    if ( n%4>=2, return(0) );
    n = n\4;
    if ( n==0, return(1) );
    return( (2*n-1)!*2/(n-1)! );
}
vector(55,n,a(n)) /* Joerg Arndt, Jan 21 2011 */

a(4n) = a(4n+1) = (2n-1)!*2/(n-1)!, a(4n+2) = a(4n+3) = 0.

Edited by N. J. A. Sloane, Jun 12 2009, incorporating comments from John W. Layman, Sep 17 2004

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A001813 Quadruple factorial numbers: a(n) = (2n)!/n!.

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A037224 Number of permutations p of {1,2,3...,n} that are fixed points under the operation of first reversing p, then taking the inverse.

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