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A194487

Number of ways to arrange 3 nonattacking knights on the lower triangle of an n X n board.

0, 1, 12, 62, 253, 804, 2136, 4958, 10376, 20013, 36144, 61846, 101163, 159286, 242748, 359634, 519806, 735143, 1019796, 1390458, 1866649, 2471016, 3229648, 4172406, 5333268, 6750689, 8467976, 10533678, 13001991, 15933178, 19394004

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OFFSET

1,3

COMMENTS

Column 3 of A194492.

LINKS

R. H. Hardin, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..200

FORMULA

Empirical: a(n) = (1/48)*n^6 + (1/16)*n^5 - (17/16)*n^4 + (133/48)*n^3 + (433/24)*n^2 - (743/6)*n + 218 for n>4.

Empirical g.f.: x^2*(1 + 5*x - x^2 + 36*x^3 - 50*x^4 + 50*x^5 - 40*x^6 + 22*x^7 - 12*x^8 + 4*x^9) / (1 - x)^7. - Colin Barker, May 05 2018

EXAMPLE

Some solutions for 3 X 3: