Parking cars of different sizes

Richard Ehrenborg; Alex Happ

doi:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.123.10.1045

Parking cars of different sizes

Richard Ehrenborg, Alex Happ

Mathematics

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We extend the notion of parking functions to parking sequences, which include cars of different sizes, and prove a product formula for the number of such sequences.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1045-1048
Number of pages	4
Journal	American Mathematical Monthly
Volume	123
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.123.10.1045
State	Published - Dec 1 2016

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Parking cars of different sizes

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