[seqfan] Re: No progress on the classic Football pools problem in 52 years

Richard J. Mathar mathar at mpia-hd.mpg.de
Tue Jun 29 16:15:21 CEST 2021


rmk> ate: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 09:53:52 +1000
rmk> From: Robert McKone <r.p.mckone at gmail.com>
rmk> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
rmk> Subject: [seqfan] Re: No progress on the classic "Football pools"
rmk>         problem in 52 years
rmk>....
rmk> Do we also have a known list of 73 for a(6) and onwards for the upper
rmk> bounds of a(7), a(8) and so on?

An a(6) covering is shown in the van Laarhoven text, cited in the OEIS.
Two possible a(7) covering is Figure 2 in the Laarhoven text.
A possible a(8) covering is Figure 3 in the Laarhoven text.



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