A320946 a(n) is the number of left-perimeter tiles among all rhombic tilings of the 2n-gon.

1, 2, 9, 80, 1340

Offset: 2

Author

Bridget Tenner, Oct 24 2018

Keywords

• nonn
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Comments

Also the number of right-perimeter tiles among all rhombic tilings of the 2n-gon. Tiles and polygons all have sides of length 1, as in A006245.

Examples

			a(4) = 9 because among the eight rhombic tilings of the octagon, 9 left-perimeter rhombi appear.
		

Links

• B. E. Tenner, Tiling-based models of perimeter and area, arXiv:1811.00082 [math.CO], 2018.

Crossrefs

Cf. A320944, A320945, A006245.

Formula

a(n) = (n-1) * A320945(n).