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Structured polyhedral numbers are a type of figurate polyhedral numbers. Structurate polyhedra differ from regular figurate polyhedra by having appropriate figurate polygonal faces at any iteration, i.e. a regular truncated octahedron, n=2, would have 7 points on its hexagonal faces, whereas a structured truncated octahedron, n=2, would have 6 points - just as a hexagon, n=2, would have. Like regular figurate polygons, structured polyhedra seem to originate at a vertex and since many polyhedra have different vertices (a pentagonal diamond has 2 "polar" vertices with 5 adjacent vertices and 5 "equatorial" vertices with 4 adjacent vertices), these polyhedra have multiple structured number sequences, dependent on the "vertex structures" which are each equal to the one vertex itself plus its adjacent vertices. For polystructurate polyhedra the notation, structured polyhedra (vertex structure x) is used to differentiate between alternate vertices, where VS stands for vertex structure.

a(n)=(1/6)*(222*n^3-312*n^2+96*n)

Contribution from Jaume Oliver Lafont (joliverlafont(AT)gmail.com), Sep 08 2009: (Start)

a(n)=(1+(n-1))*(1+22*(n-1)+37*(n-1)^2)

G.f.: x*(1+116*x+105*x^2)/(1-x)^4 (End)

Cf. A051673, A100146 through A100156 - structured Archimedean solids; A100157 through A100175 - structured Catalan solids; A100147 - structured prisms; A000447 - structured diamonds; A100185 - structured anti-prisms; and A100188 - structured anti-diamonds.

Adjacent sequences: A100142 A100143 A100144 this_sequence A100146 A100147 A100148

Sequence in context: A067915 A115619 A152622 this_sequence A090216 A113546 A166069

easy,nonn

James A. Record (james.record(AT)gmail.com), Nov 07, 2004.

Corrected by T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Oct 25 2006