Skip to main content

All Questions

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
4 votes
2 answers
594 views

Squares in Lucas sequences

Good night, everyone! According to a celebrated result by J. H. Cohn, the only perfect squares in the Fibonacci sequence are $F_{0}=0$, $F_{1}=F_{2}=1$, and $F_{12}=144$. It is also known that the ...
Jamai-Con's user avatar
26 votes
3 answers
907 views

What is the smallest size of a shape in which all fixed $n$-polyominos can fit?

Let $n$ be an integer and consider all fixed $n$-polyominos, i.e., without rotation or reflection. I am interested in finding a shape in which all polyominos can embed. (It is OK if multiple ...
a3nm's user avatar
  • 431
17 votes
2 answers
3k views

Some unpublished notes of Hofstadter

I'm looking for some unpublished notes called "Eta Lore," which are apparently related to a talk Douglas Hofstadter first gave at the Stanford Math Club in 1963. I know these notes exist because they'...
9 votes
2 answers
1k views

The p-adic valuation of a linear recurrence

Let $(u_n)_{n \geq 0}$ be an integer-valued linear recurrence of order $k \geq 1$. Precisely, $$u_n = a_1 u_{n-1} + \cdots + a_k u_{n - k} \quad \forall n \geq k ,$$ for some $a_1, \ldots, a_k \in \...
user avatar