The Pills Problem Revisited

DOI10.2989/16073600309486073MaRDI QIDQ4820584zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Charlotte A. C. Brennan, Helmut Prodinger

Publication date 15 October 2004

Published in Quaestiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2989/16073600309486073

zbMATH Keywords

generating functionsharmonic numbersrecursion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial probability (60C05)

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