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A Sequence Arising from Reflections in Multiple Glass Plates

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The problem of enumerating the possible reflection paths has already been investigated by J.A. Brooks, I. Bruce, J.T. Butler, B. Junge k V.E. Hoggatt, Jr., L. Moser & M. Wyman in [1–3, 5–7] and others.

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Imada, N. (1993). A Sequence Arising from Reflections in Multiple Glass Plates. In: Bergum, G.E., Philippou, A.N., Horadam, A.F. (eds) Applications of Fibonacci Numbers. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2058-6_35

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