Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Chicago, Illinois, March 11-14, 2010

Paper S054

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Further Maple Explorations of Forbidden Patterns in Coin Tossing

Joel C. Fowler


Southern Polytechnic State University

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ABSTRACT

We use Maple, at a student project level, to continue our exploration of recurrence relations for enumerating bit strings not containing certain sub-strings. By using two differing theoretical approaches, and Maple for computations, we find unexpected patterns and theorems for some collections of forbidden sub-strings.

Keyword(s): Maple, applications