Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/275 - The Necklace Problem/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $275$ - The Necklace Problem
Martin Gardner discusses the general problem, using a recursive formula to give the number of different necklaces with $n$ beads of $m$ different colours, in his $1966$ collection Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American.
Sources
- 1966: Martin Gardner: Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American: $20$: The Calculus of Finite Differences
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Answers: $458$. The Necklace Problem