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Stirling numbers
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Stirling numbers [′stir·liŋ ‚nəm·bərz]
(mathematics)
The coefficients which occur in the Stirling interpolation formula for a difference operator.
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th] Bell number, and the number of set partitions for each k is determined by the Stirling number of the second kind (Cameron, 1994).
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In the case where Z is a hypercube with edges parallel to those of the objects, the expected value of this natural estimator, or reduced mean connectivity (RMC), is equal to [MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (4) In this expression, a is the edge length of the hypercubic field, and the S(i, j)'s are the Stirling numbers of the second kind (cf.
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