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A006600 Total number of triangles visible in regular n-gon with all diagonals drawn.

1, 8, 35, 110, 287, 632, 1302, 2400, 4257, 6956, 11297, 17234, 25935, 37424, 53516, 73404, 101745, 136200, 181279, 236258, 306383, 389264, 495650, 620048, 772785, 951384, 1167453, 1410350, 1716191, 2058848, 2463384, 2924000, 3462305, 4067028, 4776219, 5568786, 6479551

Offset: 3

N. J. A. Sloane

Place n equally-spaced points on a circle, join them in all possible ways; how many triangles can be seen?

			a(4) = 8 because in a quadrilateral the diagonals cross to make four triangles, which pair up to make four more.

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

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=3..1000
Sascha Kurz, m-gons in regular n-gons
Victor Meally, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, no date.
B. Poonen and M. Rubinstein, Number of Intersection Points Made by the Diagonals of a Regular Polygon, SIAM J. Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 11, pp. 135-156.
B. Poonen and M. Rubinstein, The number of intersection points made by the diagonals of a regular polygon, SIAM J. on Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 11, No. 1, 135-156 (1998).
B. Poonen and M. Rubinstein, The number of intersection points made by the diagonals of a regular polygon, arXiv version, which has fewer typos than the SIAM version.
B. Poonen and M. Rubinstein, Mathematica programs for these sequences
M. Rubinstein, Drawings for n=4,5,6,...
T. Sillke, Number of triangles for convex n-gon
S. E. Sommars and T. Sommars, Number of Triangles Formed by Intersecting Diagonals of a Regular Polygon, J. Integer Sequences, 1 (1998), #98.1.5.
Sequences formed by drawing all diagonals in regular polygon

Often confused with A005732.
Cf. A203016, A260417.
Row sums of A363174.
Sequences related to chords in a circle: A001006, A054726, A006533, A006561, A006600, A007569, A007678. See also entries for chord diagrams in Index file.

del[m_,n_]:=If[Mod[n,m]==0,1,0]; Tri[n_]:=n(n-1)(n-2)(n^3+18n^2-43n+60)/720 - del[2,n](n-2)(n-7)n/8 - del[4,n](3n/4) - del[6,n](18n-106)n/3 + del[12,n]*33n + del[18,n]*36n + del[24,n]*24n - del[30,n]*96n - del[42,n]*72n - del[60,n]*264n - del[84,n]*96n - del[90,n]*48n - del[120,n]*96n - del[210,n]*48n; Table[Tri[n], {n,3,1000}] (* T. D. Noe, Dec 21 2006 *)

a(2n-1) = A005732(2n-1) for n > 1; a(2n) = A005732(2n) - A260417(n) for n > 1. - Jonathan Sondow, Jul 25 2015

a(3)-a(8) computed by Victor Meally (personal communication to N. J. A. Sloane, circa 1975); later terms and recurrence from S. Sommars and T. Sommars.

A047227 Numbers that are congruent to {1, 2, 3, 4} mod 6.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 67, 68, 69, 70, 73, 74, 75, 76, 79, 80, 81, 82, 85, 86, 87, 88, 91, 92, 93, 94, 97, 98

Offset: 1

N. J. A. Sloane

a(k)^m is a term for k and m in N. - Jerzy R Borysowicz, Apr 18 2023

Vincenzo Librandi, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (1,0,0,1,-1).

Cf. A008621, A047235, A047241, A047245, A047246, A047247, A093148.

Complement of A047264. Equals A203016 divided by 3.

[n: n in [0..100] | n mod 6 in [1..4]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Jan 06 2013

A047227:=n->(6*n-5-I^(2*n)+(1+I)*I^(1-n)+(1-I)*I^(n-1))/4: seq(A047227(n), n=1..100); # Wesley Ivan Hurt, May 20 2016

Complement[Range[100], Flatten[Table[{6n - 1, 6n}, {n, 0, 15}]]] (* Alonso del Arte, Jul 07 2011 *)
Select[Range[100], MemberQ[{1, 2, 3, 4}, Mod[#, 6]]&] (* Vincenzo Librandi, Jan 06 2013 *)

a(n)=([0,1,0,0,0; 0,0,1,0,0; 0,0,0,1,0; 0,0,0,0,1; -1,1,0,0,1]^(n-1)*[1;2;3;4;7])[1,1] \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, May 03 2023

From Johannes W. Meijer, Jul 07 2011: (Start)
a(n) = floor((n+2)/4) + floor((n+1)/4) + floor(n/4) + 2*floor((n-1)/4) + floor((n+3)/4).
G.f.: x*(1 + x + x^2 + x^3 + 2*x^4)/(x^5 - x^4 - x + 1). (End)
From Wesley Ivan Hurt, May 20 2016: (Start)
a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-4) - a(n-5) for n>5.
a(n) = (6n - 5 - i^(2n) + (1+i)*i^(1-n) + (1-i)*i^(n-1))/4 where i=sqrt(-1).
a(2n) = A047235(n), a(2n-1) = A047241(n). (End)
E.g.f.: (4 + sin(x) - cos(x) + (3*x - 2)*sinh(x) + 3*(x - 1)*cosh(x))/2. - Ilya Gutkovskiy, May 21 2016
From Wesley Ivan Hurt, May 21 2016: (Start)
a(n) = A047246(n) + 1.
a(n+2) - a(n+1) = A093148(n) for n>0.
a(1-n) = - A047247(n). (End)
Sum_{n>=1} (-1)^(n+1)/a(n) = sqrt(3)*Pi/12 + 2*log(2)/3 - log(3)/4. - Amiram Eldar, Dec 17 2021

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A006600 Total number of triangles visible in regular n-gon with all diagonals drawn.

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