Search: id:A011971 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A011971 %S A011971 1,1,2,2,3,5,5,7,10,15,15,20,27,37,52,52,67,87,114,151,203,203,255, %T A011971 322,409,523,674,877,877,1080,1335,1657,2066,2589,3263,4140,4140, %U A011971 5017,6097,7432,9089,11155,13744,17007,21147,21147,25287,30304 %N A011971 Aitken's array: triangle of numbers {a(n,k), n >= 0, 0<=k<=n} read by rows, defined by a(0,0)=1, a(n,0)=a(n-1,n-1), a(n,k)=a(n,k-1)+a(n-1, k-1). %C A011971 Also called the Bell triangle or the Pierce triangle. %C A011971 Let P be the lower-triangular Pascal-matrix, Then this is exp(P) / exp(1). - Gottfried Helms (helms(AT)uni-kassel.de), Mar 30 2007. %C A011971 a(n,k) is the number of equivalence relations on {0, ..., n} such that k is not equivalent to n, k+1 is not equivalent to n, ..., n-1 is not equivalent to n. - D. E. Knuth, Sep 21, 2002. [Comment revised by Thijs van Ommen (thijsvanommen(AT)gmail.com), Jul 13 2008] %D A011971 A. C. Aitken, A problem on combinations, Edinburgh Math. Notes 28 (1933), 18-33. %D A011971 J.-P. Allouche and J. Shallit, Automatic Sequences, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003, p. 205. %D A011971 L. Comtet, Advanced Combinatorics, Reidel, 1974, p. 212. %D A011971 D. E. Knuth, TAOCP, Vol. 4, Section 7.2.1.5. %D A011971 Charles Sanders Peirce, On the Algebra of Logic, American Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 3, pages 15-57, 1880. Reprinted in Collected Papers (1935-1958) and in Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1986). %H A011971 T. D. Noe, Rows n=0..50 of triangle, flattened %H A011971 D. Dumont, Matrices d'Euler-Seidel, Sem. Loth. Comb. B05c (1981) 59-78. %H A011971 Charles Sanders Peirce, Works %H A011971 Charles Sanders Peirce, Collected Papers %H A011971 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Bell Triangle %H A011971 Nick Hobson, Python program for this sequence %F A011971 Double-exponential generating function: sum_{n, k} a(n-k, k) x^n y^k / n! k! = exp(e^{x+y}-1+x). - D. E. Knuth, Sep 21, 2002. [U coordinates, reversed] %F A011971 a(n,k) = Sum_{i=0..k} binomial(k,i)*Bell(n-k+i). - Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Oct 15 2006 %e A011971 Triangle begins: %e A011971 1; %e A011971 1,2; %e A011971 2,3,5; %e A011971 5,7,10,15; %e A011971 15,20,27,37,52; %e A011971 ... %p A011971 A011971 := proc(n,k) option remember; if n=0 and k=0 then 1 elif k=0 then A011971(n-1,n-1) else A011971(n,k-1)+A011971(n-1,k-1); fi: end; %p A011971 for n from 0 to 12 do lprint([ seq(A011971(n,k),k=0..n) ]); od: %t A011971 a[0, 0] = 1; a[n_, 0] := a[n - 1, n - 1]; a[n_, k_] := a[n, k - 1] + a[n - 1, k - 1]; Flatten[ Table[ a[n, k], {n, 0, 9}, {k, 0, n}]] (from Robert G. Wilson v Mar 27 2004) %Y A011971 Borders give Bell numbers A000110. Diagonals give A005493, A011965, A011966, etc., A011968, A011969. Cf. A046934, A011972 (duplicates removed). %Y A011971 Main diagonal is in A094577. Mirror image is in A123346. %Y A011971 See also A095149, A106436, A108041, A108042, A108043. %Y A011971 Sequence in context: A033189 A008507 A028364 this_sequence A060048 A110699 A035537 %Y A011971 Adjacent sequences: A011968 A011969 A011970 this_sequence A011972 A011973 A011974 %K A011971 tabl,nonn,easy,nice %O A011971 0,3 %A A011971 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), J. H. Conway and R. K. Guy %E A011971 Peirce reference from Jon Awbrey (jawbrey(AT)att.net), Mar 11, 2002 Search completed in 0.002 seconds