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A089087 Triangular array of coefficients multiplied by n! of polynomials in e. These give the expected number of trials needed for the sum of uniform random variables from the interval [0,1] to exceeds n+1. +0
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1, 1, -1, 2, -4, 1, 6, -18, 12, -1, 24, -96, 108, -32, 1, 120, -600, 960, -540, 80, -1, 720, -4320, 9000, -7680, 2430, -192, 1, 5040, -35280, 90720, -105000, 53760, -10206, 448, -1, 40320, -322560, 987840, -1451520, 1050000, -344064, 40824, -1024, 1, 362880, -3265920, 11612160, -20744640, 19595520 (list; table; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,4

REFERENCES

J. Derbyshire, "Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved...", Henry Press, 2003, footnote on page 366.

J. V. Uspenski, "Introduction to Mathematical Probability", McGraw Hill, 1937, p. 278.

LINKS

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, More information

FORMULA

a(n)=(-1)^k*n!*(n+1-k)^k/k!; n th row, (n = 0, 1, 2, 3...) and k th coefficient (k = 0, 1, 2, 3...)

E.g.f.: 1/(exp(y*x)-x).

EXAMPLE

Expected number of uniform random choices of X from interval[0,1] so that their sum exceeds 1 is e/0!. Exceeds 2 is (e^2-e)/1!. Exceeds 3 is (2e^3-4e^2+e)/2!

CROSSREFS

Cf. A001113 A090142 A090143 A090137 A090138.

Sequence in context: A110877 A021009 A137478 this_sequence A142146 A143350 A119303

Adjacent sequences: A089084 A089085 A089086 this_sequence A089088 A089089 A089090

KEYWORD

easy,sign,tabl

AUTHOR

Brian Dunfield (brian.dunfield(AT)sympatico.ca), Dec 04 2003

EXTENSIONS

Corrected and extended by Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Dec 05 2003

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