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Spacy subsets of twelve integers

High school · ●●●○○ 50 pts

Call a set of integers "spacy" if it contains no more than one out of any three consecutive integers. How many subsets of {1,2,3,…,12}\{1, 2, 3, \dots, 12\}, including the empty set, are spacy?

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