Search: id:A135490 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A135490 %S A135490 1,6,30,162,886,4932,27714,157018,894942,5126268,29481732,170128850, %T A135490 984577446,5712117772,33210790018,193456179430,1128789904110, %U A135490 6596174575548,38596967873100,226120320617484,1326180436400932 %N A135490 Number of tie-less basketball games from the years 1967-present with n scoring events. %C A135490 A game is a sequence of valid scores (positive values for the home team, negative values for the visiting team). The valid scores for basketball played during the years 1967-present are {1, 2, 3, -1, -2, -3}. A tie-less game is one in which the teams are never in a tie (except at the beginning, when no team has scored yet). %H A135490 D. Zeilberger, Experimental Mathematics Spring 2008. %p A135490 TieLessGamesGeneral := proc(S, n, k) local s; option remember; if n = 0 then if k = 0 then return 1; else return 0; fi; fi; if k = 0 then return 0; fi; return add(TieLessGamesGeneral(S, n-1, k-s), s in S); end: TieLessGames := proc(S, n) local k, Smin, Smax; Smin := min(op(S)); Smax := max(op(S)); return add(TieLessGamesGeneral(S, n, k), k = Smin*n..Smax*n); end: TieLessOldBasketballGames := proc(n) return TieLessGames({1, 2, 3, -1, -2, -3}, n); end: %Y A135490 Cf. A137684. %Y A135490 Sequence in context: A026112 A038155 A026331 this_sequence A110706 A001341 A089896 %Y A135490 Adjacent sequences: A135487 A135488 A135489 this_sequence A135491 A135492 A135493 %K A135490 nonn %O A135490 0,2 %A A135490 Sequence discovered by the students of D. Zeilberger's course (avitalo(AT)math.rutgers.edu), Feb 07 2008 Search completed in 0.001 seconds