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Partitioning a set

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Barry Lewis
Barry Lewis*
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Extract

This article grew out of a problem that I saw in an old textbook on sale in a second hand bookshop. It inspired a generalisation that leads to two sets of well known numbers (Bell and Stirling numbers), and then to a new result for one of them.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 86 , Issue 505 , March 2002 , pp. 51 - 58
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2002

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