The Editor's Corner: n Coins in a Fountain

DOI10.2307/2322898zbMath0673.05006OpenAlexW4248815287MaRDI QIDQ3826559

Herbert S. Wilf, Andrew M. Odlyzko

Publication date: 1988

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2322898

zbMATH Keywords

generating functionasymptotic formulaRamanujan's continued fractionRogers-Ramanujan identitiesnumber of fountains of n coins

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Other combinatorial number theory (11B75) Continued fractions (11A55) Elementary theory of partitions (11P81)

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