No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
A Problem in Combinations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
Extract
Given sets of balls of different colours, in how many ways may they be arranged in line so that no two balls of the same colour shall come together.
If we have two colours only, and the same number ‘m of each colour, there are evidently two arrangements possible; if we have m, m – 1 respectively, only one arrangement is possible; if we have m, m – 2 ; in, m – 3, &c., no arrangement is possible. We may write these results
- Type
- Research Article
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1885