A324951 Number of path change-ringing sequences of length n for 8 bells.

1, 33, 1056, 33384, 1048280, 32797176, 1023968632, 31928050304, 994658931028

Offset: 1

Author

Jonas K. Sønsteby, May 01 2019

Keywords

• nonn
• fini
• more

Comments

a(n) is the number of (change-ringing) sequences of length[*] n when we are looking at sequences of permutations of the set {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8} that satisfy:

1. The position of each bell (number) from one permutation to the next can stay the same or move by at most one place.

2. No permutation can be repeated except for the starting permutation which can be repeated at most once at the end of the sequence to accommodate criterion 4.

3. The sequence must start with the permutation (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8).

And does not satisfy:

4. The sequence must end with the same permutation that it started with.

[*]: We define the length of a change-ringing sequence to be the number of permutations in the sequence.

With this [*] definition of the length of a change-ringing sequence; for 8 bells we get a maximum length of factorial(8)=40320, thus we have 40320 possible lengths, namely 1,2,...,40320. Hence {a(n)} has 40320 terms. For m bells, where m is a natural number larger than zero, we get a maximum length of factorial(m). When denoting the number of path change-ringing sequences of length n for m bells as a_m(n), {a_m(n)} has factorial(m) terms for all m.

Links

• Jonas K. Sønsteby, Python program.
• Index entries for sequences related to bell ringing.

Crossrefs

4 bells: A324942, A324943.

5 bells: A324944, A324945.

6 bells: A324946, A324947.

7 bells: A324948, A324949.

8 bells: A324950, This sequence.

9 bells: A324952, A324953.

Number of allowable transition rules: A000071.

Extensions

a(7)-a(9) from Bert Dobbelaere, May 17 2025