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A000105 Number of free polyominoes (or square animals) with n cells.

1, 1, 1, 2, 5, 12, 35, 108, 369, 1285, 4655, 17073, 63600, 238591, 901971, 3426576, 13079255, 50107909, 192622052, 742624232, 2870671950, 11123060678, 43191857688, 168047007728, 654999700403, 2557227044764, 9999088822075, 39153010938487, 153511100594603

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

For n>0, a(n) + A030228(n) = A000988(n) because the number of free polyominoes plus the number of polyominoes lacking bilateral symmetry equals the number of one-sided polyominoes. - Graeme McRae, Jan 05 2006
The possible symmetry groups of a (nonempty) polyomino are the 10 subgroups of the dihedral group D_8 of order 8: D_8, 1, Z_2 (five times), Z_4, (Z_2)^2 (twice). - Benoit Jubin, Dec 30 2008
Names for first few polyominoes: monomino, domino, tromino, tetromino, pentomino, hexomino, heptomino, octomino, enneomino, decomino, hendecomino, dodecomino, ...
Limit_{n->oo} a(n)^(1/n) = mu with 3.98 < mu < 4.64 (quoted by Castiglione et al., with a reference to Barequet et al., 2006, for the lower bound). The upper bound is due to Klarner and Rivest, 1973. By Madras, 1999, it is now known that this limit, also known as Klarner's constant, is equal to the limit growth rate lim_{n->oo} a(n+1)/a(n).
Polyominoes are worth exploring in the elementary school classroom. Students in grade 2 can reproduce the first 6 terms. Grade 3 students can explore area and perimeter. Grade 4 students can talk about polyomino symmetries.
The pentominoes should be singled out for special attention: 1) they offer a nice, manageable set that a teacher can commercially acquire without too much expense. 2) There are also deeply strategic games and perplexing puzzles that are great for all students. 3) A fraction of students will become engaged because of the beautiful solutions.
Conjecture: Almost all polyominoes are holey. In other words, A000104(n)/a(n) tends to 0 for increasing n. - John Mason, Dec 11 2021 (This is true, a consequence of Madras's 1999 pattern theorem. - Johann Peters, Jan 06 2024)

			a(0) = 1 as there is 1 empty polyomino with #cells = 0. - _Fred Lunnon_, Jun 24 2020

S. W. Golomb, Polyominoes, Appendix D, p. 152; Princeton Univ. Pr. NJ 1994
J. E. Goodman and J. O'Rourke, editors, Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, CRC Press, 1997, p. 229.
D. A. Klarner, The Mathematical Gardner, p. 252 Wadsworth Int. CA 1981
W. F. Lunnon, Counting polyominoes, pp. 347-372 of A. O. L. Atkin and B. J. Birch, editors, Computers in Number Theory. Academic Press, NY, 1971.
W. F. Lunnon, Counting hexagonal and triangular polyominoes, pp. 87-100 of R. C. Read, editor, Graph Theory and Computing. Academic Press, NY, 1972.
George E. Martin, Polyominoes - A Guide to Puzzles and Problems in Tiling, The Mathematical Association of America, 1996
Ed Pegg, Jr., Polyform puzzles, in Tribute to a Mathemagician, Peters, 2005, pp. 119-125.
R. C. Read, Some applications of computers in graph theory, in L. W. Beineke and R. J. Wilson, editors, Selected Topics in Graph Theory, Academic Press, NY, 1978, pp. 417-444.
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).

John Mason, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..50 (terms 0..45,47 from Toshihiro Shirakawa)
Z. Abel, E. Demaine, M. Demaine, H. Matsui and G. Rote, Common Developments of Several Different Orthogonal Boxes.
G. Barequet, M. Moffie, A. Ribo and G. Rote, Counting polyominoes on twisted cylinders, Integers 6 (2006), A22, 37 pp. (electronic).
K. S. Brown, Polyomino Enumerations
G. Castiglione, A. Frosini, E. Munarini, A. Restivo and S. Rinaldi, Combinatorial aspects of L-convex polyominoes, European J. Combin. 28 (2007), no. 6, 1724-1741.
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I. Jensen and A. J. Guttmann, Statistics of lattice animals (polyominoes) and polygons, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 33, pp. L257-L263, 2000.
M. Keller, Counting polyforms.
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N. Madras, A pattern theorem for lattice clusters, arXiv:math/9902161 [math.PR], 1999; Annals of Combinatorics, 3 (1999), 357-384.
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Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Animal enumerations on regular tilings in Spherical, Euclidean and Hyperbolic 2-dimensional spaces
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T. R. Parkin, L. J. Lander, and D. R. Parkin, Polyomino Enumeration Results, presented at SIAM Fall Meeting, 1967, and accompanying letter from T. J. Lander (annotated scanned copy)
Anuj Pathania, Scalable Task Schedulers for Many-Core Architectures, Ph.D. Thesis, Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie (Germany, 2018).
Ed Pegg, Jr., Illustrations of polyforms
Henri Picciotto, Polyomino Lessons
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D. H. Redelmeier, Counting polyominoes: yet another attack, Discrete Math., 36 (1981), 191-203.
D. H. Redelmeier, Table 3 of Counting polyominoes...
Toshihiro Shirakawa, Harmonic Magic Square, pp 3-4: Enumeration of Polyominoes considering the symmetry, April 2012.
Herman Tulleken, Polyominoes 2.2: How they fit together, (2019).
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Wikipedia, The 35 hexominoes
Wikipedia, The 108 heptominoes
Wikipedia, The 369 octominoes
Wikipedia, Polyomino
D. Xu, T. Horiyama, T. Shirakawa and R. Uehara, Common Developments of Three Incongruent Boxes of Area 30, in Proc. 12th Annual Conference, TAMC 2015, Singapore, May 18-20, 2015, LNCS Vol. 9076, pp. 236-247.
L. Zucca, Pentominoes
L. Zucca, The 12 pentominoes
Index entries for "core" sequences

Sequences classifying polyominoes by symmetry group: A006746, A006747, A006748, A006749, A056877, A056878, A142886, A144553, A144554.
Cf. A001168 (not reduced by D_8 symmetry), A000104 (no holes), A054359, A054360, A001419, A000988, A030228 (chiral polyominoes).
See A006765 for another version.
Cf. also A000577, A000228, A103465, A210996 (bisection).
Excluding a(0), 8th and 9th row of A366766.

(* In this program by Jaime Rangel-Mondragón, polyominoes are represented as a list of Gaussian integers. *)
polyominoQ[p_List] := And @@ ((IntegerQ[Re[#]] && IntegerQ[Im[#]])& /@ p);
rot[p_?polyominoQ] := I*p;
ref[p_?polyominoQ] := (# - 2 Re[#])& /@ p;
cyclic[p_] := Module[{i = p, ans = {p}}, While[(i = rot[i]) != p, AppendTo[ans, i]]; ans];
dihedral[p_?polyominoQ] := Flatten[{#, ref[#]}& /@ cyclic[p], 1];
canonical[p_?polyominoQ] := Union[(# - (Min[Re[p]] + Min[Im[p]]*I))& /@ p];
allPieces[p_] := Union[canonical /@ dihedral[p]];
polyominoes[1] = {{0}};
polyominoes[n_] := polyominoes[n] = Module[{f, fig, ans = {}}, fig = ((f = #1; ({f, #1 + 1, f, #1 + I, f, #1 - 1, f, #1 - I}&) /@ f)&) /@ polyominoes[n - 1]; fig = Partition[Flatten[fig], n]; f = Select[Union[canonical /@ fig], Length[#1] == n &]; While[f != {}, ans = {ans, First[f]}; f = Complement[f, allPieces[First[f]]]]; Partition[Flatten[ans], n]];
a[n_] := a[n] = Length[ polyominoes[n]];
Table[Print["a(", n, ") = ", a[n]]; a[n], {n, 1, 12}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Mar 24 2015, after Jaime Rangel-Mondragón *)

a(n) = A000104(n) + A001419(n). - R. J. Mathar, Jun 15 2014
a(n) = A006749(n) + A006746(n) + A006748(n) + A006747(n) + A056877(n) + A056878(n) + A144553(n) + A142886(n). - Andrew Howroyd, Dec 04 2018
a(n) = A259087(n) + A259088(n). - R. J. Mathar, May 22 2019
a(n) = (4*A006746(n) + 4*A006748(n) + 4*A006747(n) + 6*A056877(n) + 6*A056878(n) + 6*A144553(n) + 7*A142886(n) + A001168(n))/8. - John Mason, Nov 14 2021

Extended to n=28 by Tomás Oliveira e Silva
Link updated by William Rex Marshall, Dec 16 2009
Edited by Gill Barequet, May 24 2011
Misspelling "polyominos" corrected by Don Knuth, May 03 2016
a(29)-a(45), a(47) from Toshihiro Shirakawa
a(46) calculated using values from A001168 (I. Jensen), A006748/A056877/A056878/A144553/A142886 (Robert A. Russell) and A006746/A006747 (John Mason), Nov 14 2021

A001168 Number of fixed polyominoes with n cells.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 2, 6, 19, 63, 216, 760, 2725, 9910, 36446, 135268, 505861, 1903890, 7204874, 27394666, 104592937, 400795844, 1540820542, 5940738676, 22964779660, 88983512783, 345532572678, 1344372335524, 5239988770268, 20457802016011, 79992676367108, 313224032098244, 1228088671826973

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane

Number of rookwise connected patterns of n square cells.

N. Madras proved in 1999 the existence of lim_{n->oo} a(n+1)/a(n), which is the real limit growth rate of the number of polyominoes; and hence, this limit is equal to lim_{n->oo} a(n)^{1/n}, the well-known Klarner's constant. The currently best-known lower and upper bounds on this constant are 3.9801 (Barequet et al., 2006) and 4.6496 (Klarner and Rivest, 1973), respectively. But see also Knuth (2014).

			a(0) = 1 as there is 1 empty polyomino with #cells = 0. - _Fred Lunnon_, Jun 24 2020

Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, pp. 378-382.
J. E. Goodman and J. O'Rourke, editors, Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, CRC Press, 1997, p. 229.
A. J. Guttmann, ed., Polygons, Polyominoes and Polycubes, Springer, 2009, p. 478. (Table 16.10 has 56 terms of this sequence.)
I. Jensen. Counting polyominoes: a parallel implementation for cluster computing. LNCS 2659 (2003) 203-212, ICCS 2003
W. F. Lunnon, Counting polyominoes, pp. 347-372 of A. O. L. Atkin and B. J. Birch, editors, Computers in Number Theory. Academic Press, NY, 1971.
W. F. Lunnon, Counting hexagonal and triangular polyominoes, pp. 87-100 of R. C. Read, editor, Graph Theory and Computing. Academic Press, NY, 1972.
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).

Gill Barequet and Gil Ben-Shachar, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..70, a(0)..a(56) from Iwan Jensen.
Michael H. Albert, Christian Bean, Anders Claesson, Émile Nadeau, Jay Pantone, and Henning Ulfarsson, Combinatorial Exploration: An algorithmic framework for enumeration, arXiv:2202.07715 [math.CO], 2022.
G. Barequet and R. Barequet, An Improved Upper Bound on the Growth Constant of Polyominoes, Electronic Notes in Discrete Math., 2015.
Gill Barequet and Gil Ben-Shachar, Counting Polyominoes, Revisited, Proc. Symp. Algor. Eng. Exp. (ALENEX 2024), 133-143.
Gill Barequet, Gil Ben-Shachar, and Martha Carolina Osegueda, Applications of Concatenation Arguments to Polyominoes and Polycubes, EuroCG '20, 36th European Workshop on Computational Geometry, (Würzburg, Germany, 16-18 March 2020).
G. Barequet, M. Moffie, A. Ribo, and G. Rote, Counting polyominoes on twisted cylinders, Integers 6 (2006), A22, 37 pp. (electronic).
Gill Barequet and M. Shalah, Improved Bounds on the Growth Constant of Polyiamonds, 32nd European Workshop on Computational Geometry, 2016.
Gill Barequet, Solomon W. Golomb, and David A. Klarner, Polyominoes. (This is a revision, by G. Barequet, of the chapter of the same title originally written by the late D. A. Klarner for the first edition, and revised by the late S. W. Golomb for the second edition.) Preprint, 2016.
Vuong Bui, An asymptotic lower bound on the number of polyominoes, arXiv:2211.14909 [math.CO], 2022-2023. See footnote 4 for a(69) = 4619282047583828929546825973053580643926 and a(70) = 18500792645885711270652890811942343400814, attributed to Gill Barequet and Gil Ben-Shachar.
Vuong Bui, Bounding Klarner's constant from above using a simple recurrence, arXiv:2412.20143 [math.CO], 2024. See p. 1.
Stirling Chow and Frank Ruskey, Gray codes for column-convex polyominoes and a new class of distributive lattices, Discrete Mathematics, 309 (2009), 5284-5297.
A. R. Conway and A. J. Guttmann, On two-dimensional percolation, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 28(1995) 891-904.
Steven R. Finch, Klarner's Lattice Animal Constant [Broken link]
Steven R. Finch, Klarner's Lattice Animal Constant [From the Wayback machine]
J. Fortier, A. Goupil, J. Lortie and J. Tremblay, Exhaustive generation of gominoes, Theoretical Computer Science, 2012. - _N. J. A. Sloane_, Sep 20 2012
I. Jensen, Enumerations of lattice animals and trees, arXiv:cond-mat/0007239.
I. Jensen, Enumerations of lattice animals and trees, J. Stat. Phys. 103 (3-4) (2001) 865-881, Table II.
I. Jensen, Home page
I. Jensen, More terms [Go to series, animals, number of animals]
I. Jensen, More terms [pdf file of lost web link]
I. Jensen and A. J. Guttmann, Statistics of lattice animals (polyominoes) and polygons, J. Phys. A 33, L257-L263 (2000).
D. A. Klarner and R. L. Rivest, A procedure for improving the upper bound for the number of n-ominoes, Canadian J. of Mathematics, 25 (1973), 585-602.
D. E. Knuth, Program
D. E. Knuth, First 47 terms
D. E. Knuth, Problems That Philippe Would Have Loved, Paris 2014.
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N. Madras, A pattern theorem for lattice clusters, arXiv:math/9902161 [math.PR], 1999; Annals of Combinatorics, 3 (1999), 357-384.
Toufik Mansour and Armend Sh. Shabani, Enumerations on bargraphs, Discrete Math. Lett. (2019) Vol. 2, 65-94.
Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Enumeration of polyominoes
Jaime Rangel-Mondragón, Polyominoes and Related Families, The Mathematica Journal, Volume 9, Issue 3.
D. H. Redelmeier, Counting polyominoes: yet another attack, Discrete Math., 36 (1981), 191-203.
M. F. Sykes and M. Glen, Percolation processes in two dimensions. I. Low-density series expansions, J. Phys. A 9 (1) (1987) 87.
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Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Polyomino
Index entries for sequences related to polyominoes

Cf. A000105, A000988, A006746, A056877, A006748, A056878, A006747, A006749, A142886, A144553, row sums of A308359, A210986 (bisection), A210987 (bisection).
A006762 is another version.
Excluding a(0), 8th and 9th row of A366767.

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See Jaime Rangel-Mondragón's article.
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For asymptotics, see Knuth (2014).

a(n) = 8*A006749(n) + 4*A006746(n) + 4*A006748(n) + 4*A006747(n) + 2*A056877(n) + 2*A056878(n) + 2*A144553(n) + A142886(n); the number of fixed polyominoes is calculatable according to multiples of the numbers of the various symmetries of the polyomino. - John Mason, Sep 06 2017

Extended to n=28 by Tomás Oliveira e Silva
Extended to n=46 by Iwan Jensen
Verified (and one more term found) by Don Knuth, Jan 09 2001
Richard C. Schroeppel communicated Jensen's calculation of the first 56 terms, Feb 21 2005
Gill Barequet commented on Madras's proof from 1999 of the limit growth rate of this sequence, and provided references to the currently best-known bounds on it, May 24 2011
Incorrect Mathematica program removed by Jean-François Alcover, Mar 24 2015
a(0) = 1 added by N. J. A. Sloane, Jun 24 2020

A006747 Number of rotationally symmetric polyominoes with n cells (that is, polyominoes with exactly the symmetry group C_2 generated by a 180-degree rotation).

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 5, 4, 18, 19, 73, 73, 278, 283, 1076, 1090, 4125, 4183, 15939, 16105, 61628, 62170, 239388, 240907, 932230, 936447, 3641945, 3651618, 14262540, 14277519, 55987858, 55961118, 220223982, 219813564, 867835023, 865091976, 3425442681

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

nonn

This sequence gives the number of free polyominoes with symmetry group "R" in Redelmeier's notation. See his Tables 1 and 3, also the column "Rot" in Oliveira e Silva's table.

The rotation center of a polyomino with this symmetry may lie at the center of a square, the middle of an edge, or a vertex of a square. These subsets are enumerated by A351615, A234008 and A351616 respectively. - John Mason, Feb 17 2022, reformulated by Günter Rote, Oct 19 2023

			a(2) = 0 because the "domino" polyomino has symmetry group of order 4.
For n=3, the three-celled polyomino [ | | ] has group of order 4, and the polyomino
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has only reflective symmetry, so a(3) = 0.
a(4) = 1 because of (in Golomb's notation) the "skew tetromino".

S. W. Golomb, Polyominoes, Princeton Univ. Press, NJ, 1994.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

John Mason, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..50
Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Enumeration of polyominoes
Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Numbers of polyominoes classified according to Redelmeier's symmetry classes (an extract from the previous link)
D. H. Redelmeier, Counting polyominoes: yet another attack, Discrete Math., 36 (1981), 191-203.
D. H. Redelmeier, Table 3 of Counting polyominoes...

Cf. A000105, A001168, A006746, A056877, A006748, A056878, A006747, A006749.
Sequences classifying polyominoes by symmetry group: A000105, A006746, A006747, A006748, A006749, A056877, A056878, A142886, A144553, A144554, A351615, A234008, A351616.
Polyomino rings of length 2n with twofold rotational symmetry: A348402, A348403, A348404.

a(n) = A351615(n) + A234008(n/2) + A351616(n/2) for even n, otherwise a(n) = A351615(n). - John Mason, Feb 17 2022

Extended to n=28 by Tomás Oliveira e Silva
a(1)-a(3) prepended by Andrew Howroyd, Dec 04 2018
Edited by N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 28 2020
a(29)-a(36) from John Mason, Oct 16 2021

A006749 Number of asymmetric polyominoes with n cells.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 0, 0, 1, 5, 20, 84, 316, 1196, 4461, 16750, 62878, 237394, 899265, 3422111, 13069026, 50091095, 192583152, 742560511, 2870523142, 11122817672, 43191285751, 168046076423, 654997492842, 2557223459805, 9999080270766, 39152997087077, 153511067364760

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

This sequence counts polyominoes whose symmetry group has order 1.

A. R. Conway and A. J. Guttmann, On two-dimensional percolation, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 28(1995) 891-904.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

John Mason, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..50 (This version corrects erroneous values from a(44) onwards in previous version.)
Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Enumeration of polyominoes
T. R. Parkin, L. J. Lander, and D. R. Parkin, Polyomino Enumeration Results, presented at SIAM Fall Meeting, 1967, and accompanying letter from T. J. Lander (annotated scanned copy). See page 21.
D. H. Redelmeier, Counting polyominoes: yet another attack, Discrete Math., 36 (1981), 191-203.
D. H. Redelmeier, Table 3 of Counting polyominoes...

Cf. A000105, A001168, A006746, A056877, A006748, A056878, A006747, A006749.

Sequences classifying polyominoes by symmetry group: A000105, A006746, A006747, A006748, A006749, A056877, A056878, A142886, A144553, A144554.

a(n) + A259090(n) = A000105(n). - R. J. Mathar, Sep 29 2021

Extended to n=28 by Tomás Oliveira e Silva.

A056877 Number of polyominoes with n cells, symmetric about two orthogonal axes.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 8, 10, 15, 17, 30, 35, 60, 64, 117, 128, 236, 241, 459, 476, 937, 912, 1813, 1789, 3706, 3456, 7187, 6779, 14712, 13161, 28571, 25839, 58457, 50348, 113798, 98957, 232718, 193375, 453969, 380522, 927601, 745248, 1813219, 1468202, 3702063

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane, Sep 03 2000

nonn

This sequence counts polyominoes with exactly the symmetry group D_4 generated by horizontal and vertical reflections.
The subset of (2n)-ominoes with edge centers in this set are enumerated by A346799(n). - Robert A. Russell, Dec 15 2021
Polyominoes centered about square centers and vertices are enumerated by A351190 and A351191 respectively. - John Mason, Feb 15 2022

			For a(8)=4, the four octominoes with exactly fourfold symmetry and axes of symmetry parallel to the edges of the cells are a row of eight cells, two adjacent rows of four cells, a row of four cells with another four cells adjacent to its center cells, and a row of four cells with another four cells adjacent to its end cells (but not in the original row):
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Robert A. Russell, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..81
Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Enumeration of polyominoes
D. H. Redelmeier, Counting polyominoes: yet another attack, Discrete Math., 36 (1981), 191-203.
D. H. Redelmeier, Table 3 of Counting polyominoes...
Wikipedia, Symmetries of polyominoes

Cf. A000105, A001168, A006746, A006748, A056878, A006747, A006749, A346799, A351190, A351191.

Sequences classifying polyominoes by symmetry group: A000105, A006746, A006747, A006748, A006749, A056877, A056878, A142886, A144553, A144554.

a(n) = A351190(n) + A346799(n/2) + A351191(n/4) if we accept the convention that Axxxxxx(y) = 0 for any noninteger y. - John Mason, Feb 15 2022

More terms from Robert A. Russell, Jan 16 2019

A006746 Number of axially symmetric polyominoes with n cells.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 6, 9, 23, 38, 90, 147, 341, 564, 1294, 2148, 4896, 8195, 18612, 31349, 70983, 120357, 271921, 463712, 1045559, 1792582, 4034832, 6950579, 15619507, 27023509, 60638559, 105320716, 236006955, 411364068, 920626423, 1609836928

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

nonn

Number of polyominoes with n cells and exactly one line of reflection symmetry, where that one line is parallel to the grid. - Joshua Zucker, Mar 08 2008

The line of reflective symmetry may pass through the center of a square or a vertex of a square. These subsets are enumerated by A349328 and A349329 respectively. - John Mason, Feb 17 2022

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

John Mason, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..50
Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Enumeration of polyominoes
D. H. Redelmeier, Counting polyominoes: yet another attack, Discrete Math., 36 (1981), 191-203.
D. H. Redelmeier, Table 3 of Counting polyominoes...

Cf. A000105, A001168, A030227, A361625.

Sequences classifying polyominoes by symmetry group: A000105, A006746, A006747, A006748, A006749, A056877, A056878, A142886, A144553, A144554, A349328, A349329.

a(n) = A349328(n) + A349329(n/2) for even n, otherwise a(n) = A349328(n). - John Mason, Feb 17 2022

Extended to n=28 by Tomás Oliveira e Silva

A056878 Number of polyominoes with n cells, symmetric about diagonal 2.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 6, 14, 9, 20, 20, 56, 32, 80, 64, 224, 114, 315, 217, 863, 397, 1234, 751, 3331, 1400, 4816, 2632, 12815, 4973, 18792, 9349, 49400, 17810, 73338, 33557, 190643, 64309, 286368, 121511, 737532, 233891, 1119215, 443271, 2859154

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane, Sep 03 2000

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The sequence refers to those polyominoes having reflective symmetry on both diagonals, consequent 180-degree rotational symmetry, but without 90-degree rotational symmetry. Such polyominoes with rotational symmetry symmetry centered about square centers and vertices are enumerated by A351159 and A351160 respectively. - John Mason, Feb 17 2022

			For a(7)=1, the heptomino with exactly fourfold symmetry and axes of symmetry parallel to the diagonals of the cells is composed of two 2 X 2 squares with one cell in common. For a(8)=1, the octomino is composed of a 2 X 2 square and the four cells adjacent to two nonadjacent cells of that square.

Robert A. Russell, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..87
Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Enumeration of polyominoes
D. H. Redelmeier, Counting polyominoes: yet another attack, Discrete Math., 36 (1981), 191-203.
D. H. Redelmeier, Table 3 of Counting polyominoes...

Cf. A000105, A001168, A006746, A056877, A006748, A056878, A006747, A006749.

Sequences classifying polyominoes by symmetry group: A000105, A006746, A006747, A006748, A006749, A056877, A056878, A142886, A144553, A144554, A351159, A351160.

a(n) = A351159(n) + A351160(n/2) for even n, otherwise a(n) = A351159(n). - John Mason, Feb 17 2022

More terms from Robert A. Russell, Jan 18 2019

A142886 Number of polyominoes with n cells that have the symmetry group D_8.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 3, 2, 0, 0, 5, 4, 0, 0, 12, 7, 0, 0, 20, 11, 0, 0, 45, 20, 0, 0, 80, 36, 0, 0, 173, 65, 0, 0, 310, 117, 0, 0, 664, 216, 0, 0, 1210, 396, 0, 0, 2570, 736, 0, 0, 4728, 1369, 0, 0, 9976, 2558, 0, 0, 18468, 4787, 0, 0, 38840

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 01 2009

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This is the largest possible symmetry group that a polyomino can have.

Polyominoes with such symmetry centered about square centers and vertices are enumerated by A351127 and A346800 respectively. - John Mason, Feb 16 2022

			The monomino has eight-fold symmetry. The tetromino with eight-fold symmetry is four cells in a square. The pentomino with eight-fold symmetry is a cell and its four adjacent cells.

Robert A. Russell, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..163
Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Enumeration of polyominoes
D. H. Redelmeier, Counting polyominoes: yet another attack, Discrete Math., 36 (1981), 191-203.
D. H. Redelmeier, Table 3 of Counting polyominoes...
Index entries for sequences related to groups

Sequences classifying polyominoes by symmetry group: A000105, A006746, A006747, A006748, A006749, A056877, A056878, A142886, A144553, A144554, A351127, A346800.

Cf. A376971 (polycubes with full symmetry).

a(n) = A351127(n) + A346800(n/4) if n is a multiple of 4, otherwise a(n) = A351127(n). - John Mason, Feb 16 2022

Name corrected by Wesley Prosser, Sep 06 2017
a(28) added by Andrew Howroyd, Dec 04 2018
More terms from Robert A. Russell, Jan 13 2019

A006748 Number of diagonally symmetric polyominoes with n cells.

Original entry on oeis.org

0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 2, 7, 5, 26, 22, 91, 79, 326, 301, 1186, 1117, 4352, 4212, 16119, 15849, 60174, 60089, 226146, 228426, 854803, 872404, 3247207, 3342579, 12389106, 12850662, 47448984, 49544820, 182338754, 191529007, 702807040, 742163178, 2716205709, 2882119756

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

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This sequence counts polyominoes with exactly the symmetry group of order 2 generated by a single reflection about a diagonal.

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

John Mason, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..50 (terms up to a(47) from Robert A. Russell)
Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Enumeration of polyominoes
D. H. Redelmeier, Counting polyominoes: yet another attack, Discrete Math., 36 (1981), 191-203.
D. H. Redelmeier, Table 3 of Counting polyominoes...
Toshihiro Shirakawa, Harmonic Magic Square, pp 3-4: Enumeration of Polyominoes considering the symmetry, April 2012.

Cf. A000105, A001168, A006746, A056877, A006748, A056878, A006747.

Sequences classifying polyominoes by symmetry group: A000105, A006746, A006747, A006748, A006749, A056877, A056878, A142886, A144553, A144554.

a(n) = (A346800(n) - A142886(n)) / 2 - A056878(n). - Robert A. Russell, Aug 25 2021

Extended to n=28 by Tomás Oliveira e Silva

A000988 Number of one-sided polyominoes with n cells.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 1, 2, 7, 18, 60, 196, 704, 2500, 9189, 33896, 126759, 476270, 1802312, 6849777, 26152418, 100203194, 385221143, 1485200848, 5741256764, 22245940545, 86383382827, 336093325058, 1309998125640, 5114451441106, 19998172734786, 78306011677182, 307022182222506, 1205243866707468, 4736694001644862

Offset: 0

N. J. A. Sloane, hugh(AT)mimosa.com (D. Hugh Redelmeier)

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A000105(n) + A030228(n) = a(n) because the number of free polyominoes plus the number of polyominoes lacking bilateral symmetry equals the number of one-sided polyominoes. - Graeme McRae, Jan 05 2006

Names for the first few polyominoes: monomino, domino, tromino, tetromino, pentomino, hexomino, heptomino, octomino, enneomino (aka nonomino), decomino, hendecomino (aka undecomino), dodecomino, ...

			a(0) = 1 as there is 1 empty polyomino with #cells = 0. - _Fred Lunnon_, Jun 24 2020

S. W. Golomb, Polyominoes. Scribner's, NY, 1965; second edition (Polyominoes: Puzzles, Packings, Problems and Patterns) Princeton Univ. Press, 1994.
J. E. Goodman and J. O'Rourke, editors, Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, CRC Press, 1997, p. 229.
W. F. Lunnon, 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).

John Mason, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..50 (terms 0..45,47,49 from Toshihiro Shirakawa).
W. F. Lunnon, Counting multidimensional polyominoes, Computer Journal 18(4) (1975), 366-367.
Ed Pegg, Jr., Illustrations of polyforms.
Jaime Rangel-Mondragon, Polyominoes and Related Families, The Mathematica Journal, 9(3) (2005), 609-640. [Broken link]
Jaime Rangel-Mondragon, Polyominoes and Related Families, The Mathematica Journal, 9(3) (2005), 609-640. [From the internet archive]
D. H. Redelmeier, Counting polyominoes: yet another attack, Discrete Math., 36 (1981), 191-203.
Toshihiro Shirakawa, Harmonic Magic Square, pp. 3-4: Enumeration of Polyominoes considering the symmetry, April 2012.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Polyomino.
Wikipedia, Polyomino.

See A006758 for another version. Subtracting 1 gives first column of A195738. Cf. A000105 (unoriented), A030228 (chiral), A030227 (achiral), A001168 (fixed).

a(n) = 2*A006749(n) + A006746(n) + A006748(n) + 2*A006747(n) + A056877(n) + A056878(n) + 2*A144553(n) + A142886(n). - Andrew Howroyd, Dec 04 2018

a(n) = 2*A000105(n) - A030227(n) = 2*A030228(n) + A030227(n). - Robert A. Russell, Feb 03 2022

a(0) = 1 added by N. J. A. Sloane, Jun 24 2020

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A000105 Number of free polyominoes (or square animals) with n cells.

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A001168 Number of fixed polyominoes with n cells.

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A006747 Number of rotationally symmetric polyominoes with n cells (that is, polyominoes with exactly the symmetry group C_2 generated by a 180-degree rotation).

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A006749 Number of asymmetric polyominoes with n cells.

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A056877 Number of polyominoes with n cells, symmetric about two orthogonal axes.

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A006746 Number of axially symmetric polyominoes with n cells.

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A056878 Number of polyominoes with n cells, symmetric about diagonal 2.

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A142886 Number of polyominoes with n cells that have the symmetry group D_8.

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