Rectangle Covering
Source: IMO LongList 1988, Mexico 2, Problem 50 of ILL
November 3, 2005
geometryrectanglecombinatorics unsolvedcombinatorics
Problem Statement
Prove that the numbers and are equal, where:
- number of ways that we can cover a rectangle with retangles.
- number of sequences of ones and twos that add up to
- if and
- if