June 2006
Puzzle for June 2006.
Suppose we use dominoes to tile an infinite strip of height 2. In a typical tiling what fraction of the dominoes will be oriented vertically? Typical can be defined rigorously by considering all possible tilings of a 2*n rectangle and then letting n go to infinity.
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Challenge:
06/01/2006 @ 10:00 AM EST
Solution:
06/30/2006 @ 03:00 PM EST
List Updated:
06/01/2006 @ 10:00 AM EST
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