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Fountain

An $(n,k)$ fountain is an arrangement of $n$ coins in rows such that exactly $k$ coins are in the bottom row and each coin in the $(i+1)$st row touches exactly two in the $i$th row.


References

Berndt, B. C. Ramanujan's Notebooks, Part III. New York: Springer-Verlag, p. 79, 1985.




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1999-05-26