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A Note on “Pattern Variants on a Square Field”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

John W. Moon*
Affiliation:
University of Alberta

Abstract

It is shown how results of Prokhovnik on the number of pattern variants that may be formed by k markers on a square network of m2 positions may be derived more simply by means of a combinatorial theorem of Pólya's, which may also be used to solve systematically many other problems of this type.

Type
Original Paper
Copyright
Copyright © 1963 The Psychometric Society

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