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%S 1,2,3,0,1,10,24,27,16,12,0,1,56,216,378,435,324,189,54,27,0,1,346,

%T 1824,4536,7136,7947,6336,3936,1728,684,128,48,0,1,2252,15150,48600,

%U 99350,144150,156753,131000,87075,45000,19300,6000

%N Card-matching numbers (Dinner-Diner matching numbers).

%C This is a triangle of card matching numbers. A deck has 3 kinds of cards, n of each kind. The deck is shuffled and dealt in to 3 hands each with n cards. A match occurs for every card in the j-th hand of kind j. Triangle T(n,k) is the number of ways of achieving exactly k matches (k=0..3n). The probability of exactly k matches is T(n,k)/((3n)!/n!^3).

%C Rows have lengths 1,4,7,10,...

%C Analogous to A008290. - _Zerinvary Lajos_, Jun 22 2005

%D F. N. David and D. E. Barton, Combinatorial Chance, Hafner, NY, 1962, Ch. 7 and Ch. 12.

%D J. Riordan, An Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis, Wiley, 1958, pp. 174-178.

%D R. P. Stanley, Enumerative Combinatorics Volume I, Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 71.

%H D. Callan, <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL11/Callan2/callan204.html">A combinatorial interpretation for an identity of Barrucand</a>, JIS 11 (2008) 08.3.4.

%H F. F. Knudsen and I. Skau, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/2691467">On the Asymptotic Solution of a Card-Matching Problem</a>, Mathematics Magazine 69 (1996), 190-197.

%H Barbara H. Margolius, <a href="http://academic.csuohio.edu/bmargolius/homepage/dinner/dinner/cardentry.htm">Dinner-Diner Matching Probabilities</a>

%H B. H. Margolius, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/3219303">The Dinner-Diner Matching Problem</a>, Mathematics Magazine, 76 (2003), 107-118.

%H S. G. Penrice, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/2324927">Derangements, permanents and Christmas presents</a>, The American Mathematical Monthly 98(1991), 617-620.

%H <a href="/index/Ca#cardmatch">Index entries for sequences related to card matching</a>

%F G.f.: sum(coeff(R(x, n, k), x, j)*(t-1)^j*(n*k-j)!, j=0..n*k) where n is the number of kinds of cards (3 in this case), k is the number of cards of each kind and R(x, n, k) is the rook polynomial given by R(x, n, k)=(k!^2*sum(x^j/((k-j)!^2*j!))^n (see Stanley or Riordan). coeff(R(x, n, k), x, j) indicates the coefficient for x^j of the rook polynomial.

%e There are 27 ways of matching exactly 2 cards when there are 2 cards of each kind and 3 kinds of card so T(2,2)=27.

%p p := (x,k)->k!^2*sum(x^j/((k-j)!^2*j!),j=0..k); R := (x,n,k)->p(x,k)^n; f := (t,n,k)->sum(coeff(R(x,n,k),x,j)*(t-1)^j*(n*k-j)!,j=0..n*k);

%p for n from 0 to 7 do seq(coeff(f(t,3,n),t,m)/n!^3,m=0..3*n); od;

%t p[x_, k_] := k!^2*Sum[ x^j/((k-j)!^2*j!), {j, 0, k}]; r[x_, n_, k_] := p[x, k]^n; f[t_, n_, k_] := Sum[ Coefficient[r[x, n, k], x, j]*(t-1)^j*(n*k-j)!, {j, 0, n*k}]; Table[ Coefficient[ f[t, 3, n], t, m]/n!^3, {n, 0, 5}, {m, 0, 3*n}] // Flatten (* _Jean-François Alcover_, Mar 04 2013, translated from Maple *)

%Y Cf. A008290, A059056-A059071.

%Y Cf. A008290.

%K nonn,tabf,nice

%O 0,2

%A Barbara Haas Margolius (margolius(AT)math.csuohio.edu)