Climbing ten steps using only odd-sized jumps
Question
A rabbit at the bottom of a -step staircase climbs to the top using jumps that each cover an odd number of steps (, , , …). How many different jump sequences take it exactly to the top of the tenth step?
Short answer
. Let count ways to climb steps. Splitting on whether the first jump is or larger (a jump of is like a jump of from two steps higher) gives with , so is Fibonacci and .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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