A268972 Number of 2 X n 0..2 arrays with some element plus some horizontally or antidiagonally adjacent neighbor totalling two not more than once.

9, 60, 240, 912, 3312, 11664, 40176, 136080, 454896, 1504656, 4933872, 16061328, 51963120, 167226768, 535692528, 1709114256, 5433452784, 17218688400, 54411055344, 171498136464, 539289320688, 1692252695952, 5299912289520

Offset: 1

Author

R. H. Hardin, Feb 16 2016

Keywords

• nonn

Examples

			Some solutions for n=4:
..0..1..0..1. .2..2..1..2. .1..2..1..0. .2..1..0..0. .1..1..2..2
..0..0..0..2. .2..2..2..2. .2..2..1..0. .2..1..2..2. .2..2..2..1
		

Links

• R. H. Hardin, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..210

Crossrefs

Row 2 of A268971.

Formula

Empirical: a(n) = 6*a(n-1) - 9*a(n-2) for n>4.

Conjectures from Colin Barker, Jan 17 2019: (Start)

G.f.: 3*x*(3 - x)*(1 + x - 4*x^2) / (1 - 3*x)^2.

a(n) = 16*3^(n-3) * (4*n+3) for n>2.

(End)