A349784 Maximum number of sides in any cell in a regular n-gon with all diagonals drawn (cf. A007678), excluding the central n-sided cell for odd values of n.

3, 3, 4, 5, 4, 6, 5, 6, 4, 8, 5, 7, 6, 8, 7, 8, 8, 7, 8, 8, 6, 8, 8, 8, 8, 11, 6, 10, 7, 8, 8, 9, 8, 10, 8, 8, 12, 10, 8, 14, 10, 9, 8, 10, 10, 10, 10, 12, 8, 12, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 12, 9, 12, 10, 12, 10, 12, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 11, 10, 12, 10, 12, 12, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 12, 10

Offset: 4

Author

Scott R. Shannon and N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 30 2021

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

As a regular n-gon with an odd number of sides always creates an n-sided cell at its center when all its diagonals are drawn, see A342222, this n-sided cell is not considered for odd n.

Although the behavior of the sequence is unknown as n -> infinity, the data up to n = 765 implies the sequence is possibly bounded. In the range studied the 14-gon is the predominant maximum-sided cell for n > 300.

No n-gon is currently known that produces a cell with 17 sides or 19 sides and above, other than the corresponding central n-sided cell for odd values of n.

See A342222 and A342236 for images of the n-gons.

Examples

			a(4) = 3 as a regular 4-gon (square) creates four 3-gons (triangles) when all its diagonals are drawn.
a(5) = 3 as a regular 5-gon (pentagon) creates ten 3-gons when all its diagonals are drawn. Also created is a central 5-gon but this cell is not considered.
a(6) = 4 as a regular 6-gon (hexagon) creates eighteen 3-gons and six 4-gons when all its diagonals are drawn.
a(7) = 5 as a regular 7-gon (heptagon) creates thirty-five 3-gons, seven 4-gons and seven 5-gons when all its diagonals are drawn. Also created is a central 7-gon but this cell is not considered.
		

Links

• Scott R. Shannon, Table of n, a(n) for n = 4..765
• Scott R. Shannon, Image showing a close-up of the 18-sided cell in the 708-gon. Zoom in to see the vertices marked as white dots around the 18-gon, shown in violet. The bottom three vertices are extremely close together -- if the image were expanded so that the outer two of these vertices were 1cm away from the inner vertex then the size of the entire 708-gon image would be slightly over 12.9 km in diameter.

Crossrefs

Cf. A341729, A342236, A007678, A331450.