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In How Many Ways can a Rectangle be Rectangled?
Pablo Blanco, Robert Dougherty-Bliss, Natalya Ter-Saakov +1
There are ways to tile a rectangle with rectangular tiles (of any length, of course they all must have width ), but in how many ways can you tile a $100 \…
Cutting 4 by grids into two congruent pieces
Robert Dougherty-Bliss, Natalya Ter-Saakov, Doron Zeilberger
In the March 2025 issue of Pour la Science, Jean-Paul Delahaye described a wonderful solution to the following problem: How many ways can you divide a 3 by 2n rectangle into two co…
Unimodality for Radon partitions of random vectors
Swee Hong Chan, Gil Kalai, Bhargav Narayanan +2
Consider the (almost surely) unique Radon partition of a set of random Gaussian vectors in ; choose one of the two parts of this partition uniformly at random,…
The (Symbolic and Numeric) Computational Challenges of Counting 0-1 Balanced Matrices
Robert Dougherty-Bliss, Christoph Koutschan, Natalya Ter-Saakov +1
A chessboard has the property that every row and every column has as many white squares as black squares. In this mostly methodological note, we address the problem of counting suc…
The Comma Sequence is Finite in Other Bases
Robert Dougherty-Bliss, Natalya Ter-Saakov
The comma sequence (1, 12, 35, 94, ...) is the lexicographically earliest sequence such that the difference of consecutive terms equals the concatenation of the digits on either si…
Extremal Pattern-Avoiding Words
Natalya Ter-Saakov, Emily Zhang
Recently, Grytczuk, Kordulewski, and Niewiadomski defined an extremal word over an alphabet to be a word with the property that inserting any letter from …