In How Ways Can You Play Stanley Solitaire?
Combinatorics
2024-06-25 v1
Abstract
We introduce a very simple solitaire game, named Stanley Solitaire, in honor of Richard Stanley, and prove an explicit closed-form formula for the number of ways of playing it. Alas, the only proof that we know is via a deep theorem of Richard Stanley from 1984. We challenge the readers to find a more elementary proof.
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@article{arxiv.2406.15980,
title = {In How Ways Can You Play Stanley Solitaire?},
author = {Shalosh B. Ekhad and Doron Zeilberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.15980},
year = {2024}
}
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5 pages