Bell number

Meaning

Noun

  • Any member of a sequence of numbers that count the possible partitions of a set, such that the nth number Bn is the number of different ways to partition a set that has exactly n elements.

Origin

  • Named after Eric Temple Bell, who wrote about them in the 1930s.

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