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On the Evolution of Islands

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Author:Doyle, Mallows, Orlitsky, Shepp
Description: On islands and seas: an island is a maximal set of adjacent marked cells in a ring or row; a sea is a maximal set of adjacent unmarked cells. An inductive proof and a counting-argument proof. A paper that appeared in the Israel Journal of Mathematics.
Levels: College, Research
Languages: English
Resource Types: Articles
Math Topics: Permutations/Combinations

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