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Peaceable Queens

Peaceable Queens

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Neil Sloane discusses peaceable queens and chess. Check out Brilliant (get 20% off their premium service): https://brilliant.org/numberphile (sponsor)

Learn more at the OEIS entry (loads of links): https://oeis.org/A250000

References:

Ainley, Stephen. Mathematical Puzzles. London: G Bell & Sons, 1977.

Yukun Yao and Doron Zeilberger, Numerical and Symbolic Studies of the Peaceable Queens Problem, https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05886

Other notable work by Michael De Vlieger, Benoit Jubin, Peter Karpov, Don Knuth, Rob Pratt, Bob Selcoe, Paul Tabatabai.

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