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Title: Cliff Puzzle 15: Cherries in Wine Glasses
From: cliff@watson.ibm.com

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Consider a 9x9 grid of beautiful crystal wineglasses.  Throw 32 cherries
at the grid.  A glass is considered occupied if it contains at least one
cherry.  (With each throw a cherry goes into one of the glasses.)  How
many different patterns of occupied glasses can you make?  (A glass with
more than one cherry is considered the same as a glass with one cherry
in the pattern).

2.  Same as above except that you place 8 cherries in glasses (x,y) and
then determine the other positions by placing cherries at (x,-y),
(-x,y), (-x,-y) leading to 32 cherries in the grid.  Consider the array
of glasses centered at the origin.  How many different patterns of
occupied glasses can you make?  (A glass with more than one cherry is
considered the same as a glass with one cherry in the pattern).

3. Can your results be extrapolated to an NxN grid with M cherries
thrown at it for both problems?