Delannoy number
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, a Delannoy number describes the number of paths from the southwest corner (0, 0) of a rectangular grid to the northeast corner (m, n), using only single steps north, northeast, or east.



For an n × n grid, the first few Delannoy numbers (starting with n=0) are :

1, 3, 13, 63, 321, 1683, 8989, 48639, 265729, ...

The following figure illustrates the 63 Delannoy paths through a 3 × 3 grid:



The paths that do not rise above the SW–NE diagonal represent the Schröder number
Schröder number
In mathematics, a Schröder number describes the number of paths from the southwest corner of an n × n grid to the northeast corner , using only single steps north, northeast, or east, that do not rise above the SW–NE diagonal.The first few Schröder numbers are-Examples:The following...

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