On the entropy of LEGO®

Bergfinnur Durhuus; Søren Eilers

doi:10.1007/s12190-013-0730-9

On the entropy of LEGO®

Bergfinnur Durhuus, Søren Eilers

Department of Mathematical Sciences

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Abstract

We propose the further study of the rate of growth of the number of contiguous buildings which may be made from n LEGO blocks of the same size and color. Specializing to blocks of dimension 2×4 we give upper and lower bounds, and speculate on the true value.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing
Volume	45
Issue number	1-2
Pages (from-to)	433-448
ISSN	1598-5865
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12190-013-0730-9
Publication status	Published - Jun 2014

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