OFFSET
1,3
REFERENCES
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=1..100
M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards, Applied Math. Series 55, Tenth Printing, 1972, p. 835. [scanned copy]
Gábor Czédli, Four-generated direct powers of partition lattices and authentication, arXiv:2004.14509 [math.RA], 2020. See Tables 3.3 to 3.8 pp. 7-8.
Victor Meally, Comparison of several sequences given in Motzkin's paper "Sorting numbers for cylinders...", letter to N. J. A. Sloane, N. D.
T. S. Motzkin, Sorting numbers for cylinders and other classification numbers, in Combinatorics, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 19, AMS, 1971, pp. 167-176. [Annotated, scanned copy]
OEIS Wiki, Sorting numbers
MATHEMATICA
a[n_] := Max[ Table[ StirlingS2[n, k], {k, 1, n}]]; Table[a[n], {n, 1, 23}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Nov 15 2011 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n) = vecmax(vector(n, k, stirling(n, k, 2))); \\ Michel Marcus, Oct 14 2015
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,nice,easy
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
More terms from James A. Sellers, Jul 10 2000
STATUS
approved