Search: id:A027709 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A027709 %S A027709 0,4,6,8,8,10,10,12,12,12,14,14,14,16,16,16,16,18,18,18,18,20,20,20,20, %T A027709 20,22,22,22,22,22,24,24,24,24,24,24,26,26,26,26,26,26,28,28,28,28,28, %U A027709 28,28,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,34,34,34,34,34,34 %N A027709 Minimal perimeter of polyomino with n square cells. %C A027709 a(n) = 2*A027434(n). - Tanya Khovanova (tanyakh(AT)yahoo.com), Mar 04 2008 %D A027709 F. Harary and H. Harborth, Extremal Animals, Journal of Combinatorics, Information & System Sciences, Vol. 1, No 1, 1-8 (1976). %D A027709 J. Yackel, R. R. Meyer and I. Christou, Minimum-perimeter domain assignment, Mathematical Programming, vol. 78 (1997), pp. 283-303 %D A027709 W. C. Yang, Title?, PhD Dissertation, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003. %F A027709 a(n) = 2*ceil(2*sqrt(n)) %e A027709 a(5) = 10 because we can arrange 5 squares into 2 rows, with 2 squares in the top row and 3 squares in the bottom row. This shape has perimeter 10, which is minimal for 5 squares. %p A027709 interface(quiet=true); for n from 0 to 100 do printf("%d,", 2*ceil(2*sqrt(n))) od; %Y A027709 Cf. A000105, A067628 (analogue for triangles), A075777 (analogue for cubes). %Y A027709 Cf. A135711. %Y A027709 Sequence in context: A159576 A163639 A095253 this_sequence A079775 A104173 A023991 %Y A027709 Adjacent sequences: A027706 A027707 A027708 this_sequence A027710 A027711 A027712 %K A027709 easy,nonn %O A027709 0,2 %A A027709 Jonathan Custance (jevc(AT)atml.co.uk) %E A027709 Edited by Winston C. Yang (winston(AT)cs.wisc.edu), Feb 02 2002 Search completed in 0.001 seconds