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Colorful Triangles and Squares

With an unlimited supply of toothpicks of n different colors, how many different triangles can be formed on a flat surface, using three toothpicks for the three sides of each triangle? (Reflections are considered different, but not rotations.)

How many different squares?



Carl Lee
Wed Apr 21 08:26:07 EDT 1999