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5. On Professor Tait's Problem of Arrangement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Thomas Muir
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Extract

The problem in question is—To find the number of possible arrangements of a set of n things, subject to the conditions that the first is not to be in the last or first place, the second not in the first or second place, the third not in the second or third place, and so on.

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Proceedings 1876-77
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 9 , 1878 , pp. 382 - 387
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1878

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