An amusing Japanese cartoon on combinatorial explosion:
Tastefully done, I would say. The target audience consists not of this blog’s readers, but rather of their children.
Hat tip: Michael Lugo
Tags: Combinatorial Explosion, Combinatorics, Computational Complexity, Kindergarten Mathematics, Questions kids ask
September 17, 2012 at 04:25 |
Is there any formula for computing this ? Counting seems tedious!
September 18, 2012 at 15:30 |
Apparently no, http://oeis.org/A007764. Curiously, according to the link, a new record with n=21 was set today (Sep 18, 2012).