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Unevening The Odds Of "Even Up", Arthur T. Benjamin, Jennifer J. Quinn
Unevening The Odds Of "Even Up", Arthur T. Benjamin, Jennifer J. Quinn
Jennifer J. Quinn
No abstract provided in this article.
Paint It Black -- A Combinatorial Yawp, Arthur T. Benjamin, Jennifer J. Quinn, James A. Sellers, Mark A. Shattuck
Paint It Black -- A Combinatorial Yawp, Arthur T. Benjamin, Jennifer J. Quinn, James A. Sellers, Mark A. Shattuck
Jennifer J. Quinn
No abstract provided in this paper.
A Stirling Encounter With Harmonic Numbers, Arthur T. Benjamin, Gregory O. Preston '01, Jennifer J. Quinn
A Stirling Encounter With Harmonic Numbers, Arthur T. Benjamin, Gregory O. Preston '01, Jennifer J. Quinn
Jennifer J. Quinn
No abstract provided in this article.
Counting On Continued Fractions, Arthur T. Benjamin, Francis E. Su, Jennifer J. Quinn
Counting On Continued Fractions, Arthur T. Benjamin, Francis E. Su, Jennifer J. Quinn
Jennifer J. Quinn
No abstract provided in this article.
Phased Tilings And Generalized Fibonacci Identities, Arthur T. Benjamin, Jennifer J. Quinn, Francis E. Su
Phased Tilings And Generalized Fibonacci Identities, Arthur T. Benjamin, Jennifer J. Quinn, Francis E. Su
Jennifer J. Quinn
Fibonacci numbers arise in the solution of many combinatorial problems. They count the number of binary sequences with no consecutive zeros, the number of sequences of 1's and 2's which sum to a given number, and the number of independent sets of a path graph. Similar interpretations exist for Lucas numbers. Using these interpretations, it is possible to provide combinatorial proofs that shed light on many interesting Fibonacci and Lucas identities (see [1], [3]). In this paper we extend the combinatorial approach to understand relationships among generalized Fibonacci numbers. Given G0 and G1 a generalized Fibonacci sequence G0, G1, G2,... …
Summing Cubes By Counting Rectangles, Arthur T. Benjamin, Jennifer J. Quinn, Calyssa Wurtz
Summing Cubes By Counting Rectangles, Arthur T. Benjamin, Jennifer J. Quinn, Calyssa Wurtz
Jennifer J. Quinn
No abstract provided in this article.
The Combinatorialization Of Linear Recurrences, Arthur T. Benjamin, Halcyon Derks, Jennifer J. Quinn
The Combinatorialization Of Linear Recurrences, Arthur T. Benjamin, Halcyon Derks, Jennifer J. Quinn
Jennifer J. Quinn
We provide two combinatorial proofs that linear recurrences with constant coefficients have a closed form based on the roots of its characteristic equation. The proofs employ sign-reversing involutions on weighted tilings.