n!*Fibonacci(n)
Brendan McKay
bdm at cs.anu.edu.au
Sun Mar 27 09:17:58 CEST 2005
* Karol <penson at lptl.jussieu.fr> [050327 17:11]:
> Dear Brendan,
> Do you have also another version where you have not cheated ?
> Thanks in advance , Karol
Let me define "not cheating". This would be to find n!*Fib(n)
as the size of some natural set which cannot be decomposed into
X x Y where X and Y are natural sets of size n! and Fib(n)
respectively. Or at least where such decomposition is non-trivial
to see or prove. Here "natural" is a technical word meaning "lovely".
The answer is: no, I don't know how to do it but it would be lovely.
Brendan.
> Brendan McKay wrote:
> >* Karol <penson at lptl.jussieu.fr> [050327 08:35]:
> >
> >> I wonder if a combinatorial ( or other ) interpretation of the
> >>sequences
> >> n!*Fibonacci(n), n!*Pell(n)... etc . is known.
> >
> >Suppose you have a lot of bricks. Some have height 1 and are
> >labelled with a single positive integer. The others have height 2
> >and are labelled with an ordered pair of two positive integers.
> >Then n!*Fibonacci(n) is the number of ways of stacking up some
> >bricks of total height n such that the integers 1,2,...,n each
> >appear exactly once.
> >
> >I hope you can all see that I cheated!!
> >
> >Brendan.
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