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Unique Necklaces (Posted on 2004-08-18) Difficulty: 5 of 5
A circular necklace contains n beads. Each bead is black or white. How many different necklaces can be made with n beads?

There is no clasp to identify a specific point on the chain, and a flipped over necklace is still the same necklace.
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With 1 bead, the necklace can be either 1 black or 1 white bead.

With 2 beads, the necklace can be either 2 black, 2 white, or 1 black-1 white

With 3 beads, the necklace can be either 3 black, 3 white, 2 black-1 white, 2 white-1 black, etc...

# Beads  Number of Necklaces
   1          2
   2          3
   3          4
   4          6
   5          8
   6         13

No Solution Yet Submitted by SilverKnight    
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Some Thoughts half a solution | Comment 1 of 15

apparently for odd numbers the formula is 2^((n+1)/2) because for 7 I found 16. I'm not sure about the even numbers yet.


  Posted by Danny on 2004-08-18 13:50:58
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