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A Formula for the Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind

Authors :
Gao-Wen Xi
Qiu-Ming Luo
Source :
The American Mathematical Monthly. 127:762-762
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 2020.

Abstract

The Stirling number of the second kind S(n, k) is the number of partitions of {1,2,…,n} into k parts and is given by the following explicit formula: (1) S(n,k)=1k!∑j=0k(−1)k−j(kj)jn. Below we state...

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ISSN :
19300972 and 00029890
Volume :
127
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
The American Mathematical Monthly
Accession number :
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