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%I A073225 #22 Sep 08 2022 08:45:06 %S A073225 1,1,2,5,11,27,65,164,417,1068,2756,7148,18614,48639,127464,334865, %T A073225 881658,2325751,6145597,16263867,43099805,114356612,303761261, %U A073225 807692035,2149632062,5726042116,15264691108,40722913455,108713644517 %N A073225 a(n) = ceiling(n^n/n!). %C A073225 The van der Waerden conjecture, now a theorem thanks to Egorycev, states that the permanent of any n X n doubly stochastic matrix is >= n!/n^n, with equality iff the matrix has all entries equal to 1/n. %C A073225 Therefore the reciprocal of the permanent of any n X n doubly stochastic matrix is bounded from above by n^n/n! and this sequence. %C A073225 n^n/n! = A001142(n)/A001142(n-1), where A001142(n) is product{k=0 to n} C(n,k) (where C() is a binomial coefficient). - _Leroy Quet_, May 01 2004 %D A073225 G. P. Egorycev, Solution of the van der Waerden problem for permanents (Russian), Preprint IFSO-13 M. Akad. Nauk SSSR Sibirsk. Otdel., Inst. Fiz., Krasnoyarsk, 1980. 12 pp. Math. Rev. 82e:15006. %D A073225 J. H. van Lint, R. M. Wilson, A Course in Combinatorics, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992. p. 86. %H A073225 G. C. Greubel, <a href="/A073225/b073225.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000</a> %e A073225 G.f.: 1 + x + 2*x^2 + 5*x^3 + 11*x^4 + 27*x^5 + 65*x^6 + 164*x^7 + 417*x^8 + ... %t A073225 Join[{1}, Table[Ceiling[n^n/n!], {n,1,50}]] (* _G. C. Greubel_, May 29 2018 *) %o A073225 (PARI) {a(n) = ceil(n^n / n!)} %o A073225 (Magma) [Ceiling(n^n/Factorial(n)): n in [0..50]]; // _G. C. Greubel_, May 29 2018 %Y A073225 Cf. A055775, A094082. %K A073225 nonn %O A073225 0,3 %A A073225 _Michael Somos_, Jul 22 2002