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- From: sitarama@cps.msu.edu (Kocherlakota Sitarama)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Two problems
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 05:47:42 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
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-
- The second problem is a famous problem called
- Problem Des' Menages
-
- You can count the number of ways that we can arrange the couple
- with man not sitting next to his wife. Actually this problem is
- a combinatorial problem and can be formulated as placing rooks
- on a chess board. And from the calculating the probability is easy.
-
- If there are n couples the number of such seatings is given as
-
- n
- --------
- \ 2n k
- \ --------* C(2n-k,k) * (n-k) * (-1)
- / 2n - k
- /
- ---------
- k = 0
-
-
- I have a two page proof of that. But u can find, I think, find
- the proof any good book on comibinatorics. Such as Richard Stanlesy
- "Enumertive Combinatorics"
-
-
- Let me know if you need more help on this.
-
- Swamy
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- Sita Rama Swamy Kocherlakota
- Michagan State University, East Lansing
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