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A000449 Rencontres numbers: permutations with exactly 3 fixed points.
(Formerly M4700 N2009)
8
1, 0, 10, 40, 315, 2464, 22260, 222480, 2447445, 29369120, 381798846, 5345183480, 80177752655, 1282844041920, 21808348713320, 392550276838944, 7458455259940905, 149169105198816960, 3132551209175157490, 68916126601853463240 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

3,3

REFERENCES

J. Riordan, An Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis, Wiley, 1958, p. 65.

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=3..100

FORMULA

a(n)=sum((-1)^j*n!/(3!*j!), j=2..n-3).

For n >= 3 a(n) = C(n, 3) * A000166(n-3) = 1/6 * n! * sum((-1)^k /k!, k=0..n-3). - Dan Fux (dan.fux(AT)OpenGaia.com or danfux(AT)OpenGaia.com), Apr 14 2001

frac 1{e^x\ (1-x)}frac{x^3}6 [From Wenjin Woan (wjwoan(AT)hotmail.com), Nov 20 2008]

Contribution from Weisenhorn Paul (weisenhorn-f.p(AT)online.de), May 30 2010: (Start)

a(n)=binomial(n,3)*A000166(n-3) with 3 fixed-points

a(n)=binomial(n,k)*A000166(n-k) with k fixed-points

(End)

MAPLE

a:=n->sum(n!*sum((-1)^k/(k-2)!, j=0..n), k=2..n): seq(a(n)/3!, n=2..21); - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), May 25 2007

Contribution from Weisenhorn Paul (weisenhorn-f.p(AT)online.de), May 30 2010: (Start)

with k fixed-points:

G:=exp(-z)*z^k/((1-z)*k!: Gser:=series(G, z, 21):

for n from k to 20 do a(n)=n!*coeff(Gser, z, n): end do:

(End)

MATHEMATICA

Table[Subfactorial[n - 3]*Binomial[n, 3], {n, 3, 22}] [From Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Jul 10 2009]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000240, A000387, A000475.

A diagonal of A008291.

Sequence in context: A060580 A118266 A054885 * A027274 A016082 A003355

Adjacent sequences:  A000446 A000447 A000448 * A000450 A000451 A000452

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

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