Delta-K,  Student Corner,  Volume 33, Issue 3

Dissecting Rectangular Strips Into Dominoes

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 33 Issue 3, December 1996

27 – 30

Dissecting Rectangular Strips Into Dominoes

Frank Chen

A domino is defined to be a l x 2 or 2 x l rectangle. The first one is said to be horizontal and the second vertical. In our Mathematics Club, we learned to count the number gn of different ways of dissecting a 3 x 2n strip into dominoes.