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Prerequisites for the Trains Problem

Anyone can get started on the trains project, make some conjectures, and begin to develop explanations to back up their conjectures.

To come up with a complete algorithm and prove your results, it helps to know a bit about recursion and recursive algorithms. Knowledge of combinatorics can be helpful for some approaches.



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