A249733 Number of (not necessarily distinct) multiples of 9 on row n of Pascal's triangle.

0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6, 3, 0, 4, 2, 0, 2, 1, 0, 12, 6, 0, 8, 4, 0, 4, 2, 0, 24, 21, 18, 19, 14, 9, 14, 7, 0, 28, 20, 12, 20, 13, 6, 12, 6, 0, 32, 19, 6, 21, 12, 3, 10, 5, 0, 48, 42, 36, 38, 28, 18, 28, 14, 0, 50, 37, 24, 36, 24, 12, 22, 11, 0, 52, 32, 12, 34, 20, 6, 16, 8, 0

Offset: 0

Author

Antti Karttunen, Nov 04 2014

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

Number of zeros on row n of A095143 (Pascal's triangle reduced modulo 9).

This should have a formula. See for example A062296, A006047 and A048967.

Examples

			Row 9 of Pascal's triangle is {1, 9, 36, 84, 126, 126, 84, 36, 9, 1}. The terms 9, 36, and 126 are the only multiples of nine, and each of them occurs two times on that row, thus a(9) = 2*3 = 6.
Row 10 of Pascal's triangle is {1, 10, 45, 120, 210, 252, 210, 120, 45, 10, 1}. The terms 45 (= 9*5) and 252 (= 9*28) are the only multiples of nine, and the former occurs twice, while the latter is alone at the center, thus a(10) = 2+1 = 3.
		

Links

• Antti Karttunen, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..6561
• James G. Huard, Blair K. Spearman and Kenneth S. Williams, Pascal's triangle (mod 9), Acta Arithmetica (1997), Volume: 78, Issue: 4, page 331-349.

Crossrefs

Cf. A007318, A048277, A048967, A062296, A095143, A249343, A249723, A249731, A249732, A051382, A249719, A249720, A006047.

Programs

Mathematica

Total/@Table[If[Mod[Binomial[n,k],9]==0,1,0],{n,0,80},{k,0,n}] (* Harvey P. Dale, Feb 12 2020 *)

PARI

A249733(n) = { my(c=0); for(k=0,n\2,if(!(binomial(n,k)%9),c += (if(k<(n/2),2,1)))); return(c); } \\ Unoptimized.
for(n=0, 6561, write("b249733.txt", n, " ", A249733(n)));

Python

import re
from gmpy2 import digits
def A249733(n):
    s = digits(n,3)
    n1 = s.count('1')
    n2 = s.count('2')
    n01 = s.count('10')
    n02 = s.count('20')
    n11 = len(re.findall('(?=11)',s))
    n12 = s.count('21')
    return n+1-(((3*(n01+1)+(n02<<2)+n12<<2)+3*n11)*(3**n2<Chai Wah Wu, Jul 24 2025

Formula

For all n >= 0, the following holds:

a(n) <= A048277(n).

a(n) <= A062296(n).

a(2*A249719(n)) > 0 and a((2*A249719(n))-1) > 0.

a(n) is odd if and only if n is one of the terms of A249720.