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- From: wilson@web.ctron.com (Dave Wilson)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Folding numbers
- Message-ID: <4958@balrog.ctron.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 17:44:52 GMT
- Sender: usenet@balrog.ctron.com
- Reply-To: wilson@web.ctron.com (Dave Wilson)
- Organization: Cabletron Systems INc.
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- Suppose we have a leaflet of N connected pages, e.g:
-
- +-------+-------+-------+- -+-------+-------+
- | | | | | | |
- | TITLE | 2 | 3 | ... | N-1 | N |
- | | | | | | |
- +-------+-------+-------+- -+-------+-------+
-
- Let f(N) be the number of ways to fold the leaflet along its
- perforations to the size of a single page so that the title page
- appears on top of the folded leaflet. I have computed the
- following values for f(N):
-
- N f(N)
-
- 0 1
- 1 1
- 2 1
- 3 2
- 4 4
- 5 10
- 6 24
- 7 66
- 8 174
- 9 504
- 10 1406
- 11 4210
- 12 12198
-
- I have verified these values by hand up to N = 5.
-
- 1. Is there a closed form or generating function for f(N)?
-
- 2. If we do not restrict the title page to be on top of the
- folded leaflet, the number of foldings appears to be N*f(N),
- in all cases I have computed (N <= 10). Is there a
- straightforward argument as to why this should be so?
-
-
- --
- David W. Wilson (wilson@web.ctron.com)
-
- Disclaimer: "Truth is just truth...You can't have opinions about truth."
- - Peter Schikele, introduction to P.D.Q. Bach's oratorio "The Seasonings."
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