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A059059 Card-matching numbers (Dinner-Diner matching numbers).

%I A059059 #17 Sep 26 2017 05:08:31
%S A059059 1,0,0,0,6,36,0,324,0,324,0,36,12096,46656,81648,93960,69984,40824,
%T A059059 11664,5832,0,216,17927568,64105344,109524960,117863424,89474544,
%U A059059 49828608,21352896,6718464,1854576,279936,69984,0,1296
%N A059059 Card-matching numbers (Dinner-Diner matching numbers).
%C A059059 This is a triangle of card matching numbers. Two decks each have n kinds of cards, 3 of each kind. The first deck is laid out in order. The second deck is shuffled and laid out next to the first. A match occurs if a card from the second deck is next to a card of the same kind from the first deck. Triangle T(n,k) is the number of ways of achieving exactly k matches (k=0..3n). The probability of exactly k matches is T(n,k)/(3n)!.
%C A059059 Rows are of length 1,4,7,10,...
%D A059059 F. N. David and D. E. Barton, Combinatorial Chance, Hafner, NY, 1962, Ch. 7 and Ch. 12.
%D A059059 J. Riordan, An Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis, Wiley, 1958, pp. 174-178.
%D A059059 R. P. Stanley, Enumerative Combinatorics Volume I, Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 71.
%H A059059 F. F. Knudsen and I. Skau, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/2691467">On the Asymptotic Solution of a Card-Matching Problem</a>, Mathematics Magazine 69 (1996), 190-197.
%H A059059 Barbara H. Margolius, <a href="http://academic.csuohio.edu/bmargolius/homepage/dinner/dinner/cardentry.htm">Dinner-Diner Matching Probabilities</a>
%H A059059 B. H. Margolius, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/3219303">The Dinner-Diner Matching Problem</a>, Mathematics Magazine, 76 (2003), 107-118.
%H A059059 S. G. Penrice, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/2324927">Derangements, permanents and Christmas presents</a>, The American Mathematical Monthly 98(1991), 617-620.
%H A059059 <a href="/index/Ca#cardmatch">Index entries for sequences related to card matching</a>
%F A059059 G.f.: sum(coeff(R(x, n, k), x, j)*(t-1)^j*(n*k-j)!, j=0..n*k) where n is the number of kinds of cards, k is the number of cards of each kind (here k is 3) and R(x, n, k) is the rook polynomial given by R(x, n, k)=(k!^2*sum(x^j/((k-j)!^2*j!))^n (see Stanley or Riordan). coeff(R(x, n, k), x, j) indicates the j-th coefficient on x of the rook polynomial.
%e A059059 There are 324 ways of matching exactly 2 cards when there are 2 different kinds of cards, 3 of each in each of the two decks so T(2,2)=324.
%p A059059 p := (x,k)->k!^2*sum(x^j/((k-j)!^2*j!),j=0..k); R := (x,n,k)->p(x,k)^n; f := (t,n,k)->sum(coeff(R(x,n,k),x,j)*(t-1)^j*(n*k-j)!,j=0..n*k);
%p A059059 for n from 0 to 4 do seq(coeff(f(t,n,3),t,m),m=0..3*n); od;
%t A059059 p[x_, k_] := k!^2*Sum[x^j/((k - j)!^2*j!), {j, 0, k}]; r[x_, n_, k_] := p[x, k]^n; f[t_, n_, k_] := Sum[Coefficient[r[x, n, k], x, j]*(t - 1)^j*(n*k - j)!, {j, 0, n*k}]; Table[ Coefficient[f[t, n, 3], t, m], {n, 0, 4}, {m, 0, 3*n}] // Flatten (* _Jean-François Alcover_, Oct 21 2013, after Maple *)
%Y A059059 Cf. A008290, A059056-A059071.
%K A059059 nonn,tabf,nice
%O A059059 0,5
%A A059059 Barbara Haas Margolius (margolius(AT)math.csuohio.edu)