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Number of Arrangements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

E. M. Wright
E. M. Wright*
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University of Aberdeen
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In a recent article [1] in this Gazette, Collings discusses the number of arrangements of n railway trucks on k sidings under a variety of conditions. Let qk (n) be the number of ways of arranging n indistinguishable trucks on k indistinguishable sidings or, what is the same thing, the number of partitions of n into not more than k parts. Let pk (n) be the number of these arrangements which use all k sidings, that is, the number of partitions of n into exactly k parts. Collings describes the determination of pk(n) and qk(n) as an unsolved problem in partition theory; this is not quite correct.

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Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 51 , Issue 378 , December 1967 , pp. 305 - 308
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1931

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