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Number of tilings of a 5 X n rectangle using n pentominoes of shapes P, U, X.
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#12 by Alois P. Heinz at Mon Feb 06 12:28:12 EST 2017
STATUS

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#11 by Alois P. Heinz at Mon Feb 06 12:28:07 EST 2017
LINKS

Wikipedia, <a href="httphttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino">Pentomino</a>

STATUS

approved

editing

#10 by Alois P. Heinz at Thu Nov 24 07:14:25 EST 2016
STATUS

editing

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#9 by Alois P. Heinz at Wed Nov 23 11:19:18 EST 2016
FORMULA

a(n) mod 2 = A079978(n).

#8 by Alois P. Heinz at Wed Nov 23 11:09:13 EST 2016
FORMULA

G.f.: -(4*x^6+x^3-1) / (8*x^12 +16*x^11 +6*x^9 +4*x^8 +8*x^7 -21*x^6 -4*x^5 -8*x^4 -2*x^3 -2*x^2+1).

#7 by Alois P. Heinz at Wed Nov 23 11:06:59 EST 2016
MAPLE

a:= n-> (Matrix(12, (i, j)-> `if`(i+1=j, 1, `if`(i=12,

[-8, -16, 0, -6, -4, -8, 21, 4, 8, 2, 2, 0][j], 0)))^n.

<<1, 0, 2, 1, 12, 10, 59, 52, 276, 349, 1404, 1984>>)[1, 1]:

seq(a(n), n=0..35);

#6 by Alois P. Heinz at Fri Nov 18 12:27:37 EST 2016
LINKS

<a href="/index/Rec#order_12">Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (0,2,2,8,4,21,-8,-4,-6,0,-16,-8).

#5 by Alois P. Heinz at Fri Nov 18 12:24:14 EST 2016
LINKS

Alois P. Heinz, <a href="/A278330/b278330.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000</a>

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,changed

#4 by Alois P. Heinz at Fri Nov 18 12:11:27 EST 2016
#3 by Alois P. Heinz at Fri Nov 18 12:08:57 EST 2016
EXAMPLE

a(2) = 2, a(3) = 1:

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