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Oh-oh Domino (Posted on 2018-07-06) Difficulty: 5 of 5
How many different ways are there to fully tile a 2n x 2n grid with dominoes? Here "different" means apparently different. Further, how many unique ways are there? Here "unique" excludes all redundant configurations that are rotations and/or reflections of another. Find the different and unique ways up to 2n=8.

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Abbreviated solution | Comment 2 of 4 |
At first glance, this looks straightforward. Either I am missing something, or else everyone else is.

The n=1 case has two solutions.

The general case is made up by pasteing together n^2 n=1 cases. Hence, we get 2^(n^2) solutions for the general case.

To count the number of "unique" cases, examine the symmetry group and do the division.

  Posted by FrankM on 2019-05-27 13:53:35
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