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A Procedure for Improving the Upper Bound for the Number of n-Ominoes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

D. A. Klarner
Affiliation:
Stanford University, Stanford, California
R. L. Rivest
Affiliation:
Stanford University, Stanford, California
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We begin with some definitions and a formulation of the problem treated in subsequent sections. Also included in this section is a brief indication of some of the known results dealing with the n-omino enumeration problem. Some of what follows together with more details may be found in [3] or [4].

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1973

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