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A090327 Number of rules of a context-free grammar in Chomsky normal form that generates all permutations of n symbols. +0
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1, 4, 11, 30, 83, 234, 671, 1950, 5723, 16914, 50231, 149670, 446963, 1336794, 4002191, 11990190, 35937803, 107747874, 323112551, 969075510, 2906702243, 8719058154, 26155077311, 78461037630, 235374724283, 706107395634 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

REFERENCES

P. R. J. Asveld, Generating all permutations by context-free grammars in Chomsky normal form, Theoretical Computer Science 354 (2006) 118-130.

FORMULA

a(n) = ceiling[ (5*3^(n-2))/2 + 2^(n-1) - 1/2 ] for n > 1.

EXAMPLE

S -> AD | DA | BE | EB, D -> BC | CB, E -> AC | CA, A -> a, B -> b, C-> c; so a(3)=11.

MATHEMATICA

f[n_] := Ceiling[5/2*3^(n - 2) + 2^(n - 1) - 1/2]; Table[ f[n], {n, 2, 27}] (from Robert G. Wilson v Jan 30 2004)

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A019496 A021006 A078141 this_sequence A104743 A004080 A027115

Adjacent sequences: A090324 A090325 A090326 this_sequence A090328 A090329 A090330

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Peter R. J. Asveld (infprja(AT)cs.utwente.nl), Jan 27 2004

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Jan 30 2004

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