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A287392 Domination number for lion's graph on an n X n board. 1

%I #24 Aug 15 2022 04:32:26

%S 0,1,1,1,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,9,9,9,9,9,16,16,16,16,16,25,25,25,25,25,36,36,

%T 36,36,36,49,49,49,49,49,64,64,64,64,64,81,81,81,81,81,100,100,100,

%U 100,100,121,121,121,121,121,144,144,144,144,144,169,169,169

%N Domination number for lion's graph on an n X n board.

%C Minimum number of lions (from Chu shogi, Dai shogi and other Shogi variants) required to dominate an n X n board.

%H Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_chess_piece#L">Fairy chess piece</a>.

%H <a href="/index/Rec#order_11">Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (1,0,0,0,2,-2,0,0,0,-1,1).

%F a(n) = floor((n+4)/5)^2.

%F Sum_{n>=1} 1/a(n) = 5*Pi^2/6. - _Amiram Eldar_, Aug 15 2022

%e For n=6 we need a(6)=4 lions to dominate a 6 X 6 board.

%t Table[Floor[(i+4)/5]^2, {i, 0, 64}]

%o (Python) [int((n+4)/5)**2 for n in range(64)]

%Y Cf. A075458.

%K nonn,easy

%O 0,7

%A _David Nacin_, May 24 2017

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