`` Let, F([m[1], m[2]]), be the number of ways of of walking from [0, 0] to the point , m = [m[1], m[2]] in the , 2, -dimensional cubic lattice using the following allowed steps: {[0, 2], [2, 0], [1, 1]} F(m[1], m[2]), satisfies the following linear recurrences equation with polynomial coefficients in the, m[1], direction, it satisfies (m[2] + m[1] + 4) (m[2] + m[1] + 2) F(m[1], m[2]) 3/4 ------------------------------------------------- (m[1] + 3) (m[1] + 4) (m[2] + 7 m[1] + 18) (m[2] + m[1] + 4) F(2 + m[1], m[2]) - 1/4 -------------------------------------------------------- (m[1] + 3) (m[1] + 4) + F(m[1] + 4, m[2]) = 0 in the, m[2], direction, it satisfies (m[2] + m[1] + 4) (m[2] + m[1] + 2) F(m[1], m[2]) 3/4 ------------------------------------------------- (3 + m[2]) (4 + m[2]) (m[2] + m[1] + 4) (7 m[2] + m[1] + 18) F(m[1], 2 + m[2]) - 1/4 -------------------------------------------------------- (3 + m[2]) (4 + m[2]) + F(m[1], 4 + m[2]) = 0 Let F(n) be the number of ways of walking from , [0, 0], to the point , [n, n], in the , 2, -dimensional cubic lattice using the following allowed steps: {[0, 2], [2, 0], [1, 1]} F(n) satisfies the following linear recurrence equation with polynomial coefficients 3 (1 + n) F(n) (2 n + 3) F(1 + n) - -------------- - ------------------ + F(n + 2) = 0 n + 2 n + 2 subject to the initial conditions F(0) = 1, F(1) = 1, F(2) = 3 This implies, thanks to Birkhoff-Trijinski, that F(n) is asymptotically a constant times n / 3 1 135 \ 0.48860251 3 |1 - ---- + ------ + -------| | 16 n 2 3| \ 512 n 8192 n / ------------------------------------------- 1/2 n which is roughly equal to n / 0.1875000000 0.001953125000 0.01647949219\ 0.48860251 3. |1. - ------------ + -------------- + -------------| | n 2 3 | \ n n / ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/2 n For the record, the first 31 terms of the sequence are [1, 1, 3, 7, 19, 51, 141, 393, 1107, 3139, 8953, 25653, 73789, 212941, 616227, 1787607, 5196627, 15134931, 44152809, 128996853, 377379369, 1105350729, 3241135527, 9513228123, 27948336381, 82176836301, 241813226151, 712070156203, 2098240353907, 6186675630819, 18252025766941] The whole thing took, 4.708, seconds of CPU time