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A000475 Rencontres numbers: permutations with exactly 4 fixed points.
(Formerly M4969 N2132)
9
1, 0, 15, 70, 630, 5544, 55650, 611820, 7342335, 95449640, 1336295961, 20044438050, 320711010620, 5452087178160, 98137569209940, 1864613814984984, 37292276299704525, 783137802293789040, 17229031650463366195, 396267727960657413630 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

4,3

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=4..100

FORMULA

a(n)=sum((-1)^j*n!/(4!*j!), j=2..n-4).

a(n) = A000166(n)*binomial(n+4, 4). - Robert Goodhand (robert(AT)rgoodhand.fsnet.co.uk), Nov 08, 2001

EGF:(exp(-x)/(1-x))(x^4/4!). In genaral, for k fixed points:(exp(-x)/(1-x))(x^k/k!). [From Wenjin Woan (wjwoan(AT)hotmail.com), Nov 22 2008]

G.f.: exp(-x)/(1-x)*(x^4/4!) [From Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Apr 03 2009]

MAPLE

a:=n->sum(n!*sum((-1)^k/(k-3)!, j=0..n), k=3..n): seq(-a(n)/4!, n=3..22); - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), May 25 2007

restart: G(x):=exp(-x)/(1-x)*(x^4/4!): f[0]:=G(x): for n from 1 to 26 do f[n]:=diff(f[n-1], x) od: x:=0: seq(f[n], n=4..23); # [From Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Apr 03 2009]

MATHEMATICA

Table[Subfactorial[n - 4]*Binomial[n, 4], {n, 4, 23}] [From Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Jul 10 2009]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000240, A000387, A000449.

A diagonal of A008291.

Sequence in context: A124893 A126402 A053134 * A145053 A168298 A126274

Adjacent sequences:  A000472 A000473 A000474 * A000476 A000477 A000478

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

Formula corrected by Sean A. Irvine (sairvin(AT)xtra.co.nz), Oct 26 2010

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