Stirling numbers

Layer 0 — Mathematicsin the combinatorics subtree

Two families: S(n,k) (second kind) counts partitions of {1..n} into k non-empty blocks; s(n,k) (first kind, signed) is the coefficient of x^k in x(x-1)…(x-n+1).

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