Friday, January 27, 2012

We would like to tile a 2x10 rectangle with 1x2 dominoes. How many different solutions are there?

I know this is a recursion problem. Can somebody explain the recursion?We would like to tile a 2x10 rectangle with 1x2 dominoes. How many different solutions are there?
this problem was in this site a few days back.

i will give you the relation.

f(n)=f(n-1)+f(n-2)

now solve it.i believe this is fibonacci sequence.We would like to tile a 2x10 rectangle with 1x2 dominoes. How many different solutions are there?
First, you can tell the entire tiling just by looking at the top row: if it looks like a single square, that's part of a vertical domino; if there's a horizontal domino, there must be one directly beneath it.



So the question is: how many ways can you tile a 1x10 rectangle with squares and dominoes. It is indeed Fibonacci. There 1 way to tile a 1x1, and 2 ways to tile a 1x2 (domino or two squares). For 1xn, you can add a square to a 1x(n-1) tiling or a domino to a 1x(n-2) tiling. The numbers are 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, *89*.
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