A Piece of the Pi: mathematics explained

A Piece of the Pi: mathematics explained

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Counting dimer tilings

Counting dimer tilings

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Richard Green
Feb 21, 2025
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A dimer is a 2×1 domino-shaped rectangle. How many ways are there to arrange four non-overlapping dimers on a 3×3 grid, leaving one of the 9 spaces empty? The three essentially different ways to do t…

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