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Number of ways to fold a strip of n+1 labeled stamps.

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Index entries for sequences obtained by enumerating foldings

P. Di Francesco, Matrix model combinatorics: applications to folding and coloring

M. La Croix, Approaches to the Enumerative Theory of Meanders [From Gerald McGarvey (gerald.mcgarvey(AT)comcast.net), Oct 26 2008]

a(3) = 4: the four solutions with three crossings are the two solutions shown in A086441 together with their reflections about a North-South axis.

A000560(n) = a(n)/2 (for n >= 2) gives number of nonisomorphic solutions (see also A086441). Cf. A001011, A001997.

Sequence in context: A084078 A137842 A049146 this_sequence A001997 A000084 A057734

Adjacent sequences: A000679 A000680 A000681 this_sequence A000683 A000684 A000685

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N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

Sade gives the first 11 terms. Computed to n = 45 by Iwan Jensen.