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Sugar beet, guinea pigs and graph theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Lindsay J. Paterson
Lindsay J. Paterson*
Affiliation:
Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS
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I. Scientific background

Here are two problems in applied combinatorics.

Problem I

A plant breeder wants to assess the yields of several varieties of sugar beet. The plots of land on which the experiment is to be grown are arranged in a row: each plot is to be planted with seed of a single variety. There is enough seed for more than one appearance of each variety.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 70 , Issue 454 , December 1986 , pp. 273 - 280
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1986

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