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Notes: 61.20 Using graphs to count logic block chains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

Derek Ball*
Affiliation:
College of St Mark and St John, Derriford Road, Plymouth PL6 8BH

Extract

Last summer a colleague of mine suggested a counting problem which I eventually solved by a curious method involving the counting of subgraphs. The problem was to find the number of different ways of arranging twelve Dienes logic blocks which differ only in shape and colour in a closed chain, in such a way that there is one difference in attribute between each pair of neighbouring pieces in the chain.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1977

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