The number of [old-time] basketball games with final score \(n\):\(n\) where the home team was never losing but also never ahead by more than \(w\) points

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Doron Zeilberger, Arvind Ayyer

Publication date: 12 March 2007

Published in: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610734

zbMATH Keywords

generating functionlinear recurrence relation

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Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15)

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