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Recursion, Catalan Numbers & Generating Functions · Hard problem

Eight people each choose a floor from {1,2,3,4}\{1,2,3,4\}, forming a sequence s1,s2,…,s8s_1,s_2,\dots,s_8. How many such sequences satisfy ∣si+1−si∣≤1|s_{i+1}-s_i|\le 1 for every ii?