On the entropy of LEGO^

DOI10.1007/S12190-013-0730-9MaRDI QIDQ2511468zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. Durhuus, Søren Eilers

Publication date 5 August 2014

Published in Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0504039

zbMATH Keywords

\textsf{LEGO}asymptotic enumerationconfigurationentropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic enumeration (05A16) Other designs, configurations (05B30) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

Abstract: We propose the further study of the rate of growth of the number of contiguous buildings which may be made from n LEGO blocks of the same size and color. Specializing to blocks of dimension 2x4 we give upper and lower bounds, and speculate on the true value.

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