A210113 Floor of the expected value of number of trials until exactly two cells are empty in a random distribution of n balls in n cells.
9, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 12, 21, 40, 75, 147, 292, 594, 1229, 2582, 5499, 11859, 25868, 57008, 126814, 284523, 643401, 1465511, 3360493, 7753730, 17993787, 41982506, 98445184, 231932762, 548839352, 1304155087
Offset: 3
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Examples
For n=3, there are 3^3 = 27 sequences on 3 symbols of length 3. Only 3 sequences has a unique symbol, so a(3) = floor(27/3) = 9.
References
- W. Feller, An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications, 2nd ed, Wiley, New York, 1965, (2.4) p. 92. (Occupancy problems)
Links
- Washington Bomfim, Table of n, a(n) for n = 3..100
Formula
With m = 2, a(n) = floor(n^n/(binomial(n,m)*_Sum{v=0..n-m-1}((-1)^v*binomial(n-m,v)*(n-m-v)^n)))
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