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Stirling numbers of the second kind [¦stər·liŋ ‚nəm·bərz əvthə ′sek·ənd ‚kīnd]

(mathematics)

The numbersS(n,r) giving the numbers of ways thatnelements can be distributed amongrindistinguishable cells so that no cell remains empty.

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