The story of 1,2,7,42,429,7436,..

DOI10.1007/BF03024081zbMath0723.05004MaRDI QIDQ757373

David P. Robbins

Publication date: 1991

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

enumerationalternating sign matricesplane partitions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15)

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