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This is a front-end for the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, made by Christian Perfect. The idea is to provide OEIS entries in non-ancient HTML, and then to think about how they're presented visually. The source code is on GitHub.

A084357 Number of sets of sets of lists.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 1, 4, 23, 171, 1552, 16583, 203443, 2813660, 43258011, 731183365, 13466814110, 268270250977, 5744515120489, 131525839441428, 3205279987587275, 82812074976214547, 2260364854328771548, 64979726427408468055, 1961976154991285214707, 62065551492895731512852
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Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Jun 22 2003

Keywords

Comments

In the book by Flajolet and Sedgewick on page 139 incorrectly gives a(5) = 1542. - Vaclav Kotesovec, Jul 11 2020

References

  • T. S. Motzkin, Sorting numbers ...: for a link to an annotated scanned version of this paper see A000262.
  • T. S. Motzkin, Sorting numbers for cylinders and other classification numbers, in Combinatorics, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 19, AMS, 1971, pp. 167-176.

Crossrefs

Row sums of A079005 and row sums of A088814.

Programs

  • Maple
    with(combstruct); SetSetSeqL := [T, {T=Set(S), S=Set(U,card >= 1), U=Sequence(Z,card >=1)},labeled]; [seq(count(%,size=j),j=1..12)];
  • Mathematica
    a[n_] = Sum[ n!/k!*Binomial[n-1, k-1]*BellB[k], {k, 0, n}]; a[0] = 1; Array[a, 20, 0]
    (* Jean-François Alcover, Jun 22 2011, after Vladeta Jovovic *)

Formula

E.g.f.: exp(exp(x/(1-x))-1). Lah transform of Bell numbers: Sum_{k=0..n} n!/k!*binomial(n-1, k-1)*Bell(k). - Vladeta Jovovic, Sep 28 2003