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A004250 Number of partitions of n into 3 or more parts.
(Formerly M1046)
16
0, 0, 1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 17, 25, 36, 50, 70, 94, 127, 168, 222, 288, 375, 480, 616, 781, 990, 1243, 1562, 1945, 2422, 2996, 3703, 4550, 5588, 6826, 8332, 10126, 12292, 14865, 17958, 21618, 25995, 31165, 37317, 44562 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,4

REFERENCES

N. Metropolis and P. R. Stein, The enumeration of graphical partitions, Europ. J. Combin., 1 (1980), 139-1532.

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

P. R. Stein, On the number of graphical partitions, pp. 671-684 of Proc. 9th S-E Conf. Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Computing, Congr. Numer. 21 (1978).

LINKS

T. M. Barnes and C. D. Savage, A recurrence for counting graphical partitions, Electronic J. Combinatorics, 2 (1995)

Index entries for sequences related to graphical partitions

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics. Spider

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Spider

FORMULA

G.f.: sum(q^n / product( 1-q^k, k=1..n+3), n=0..inf) [ N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com) ].

a(n) = A000041(n)-floor((n+2)/2) = A058984(n)-1. - Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Jun 18 2003

Let P(n,i) denote the number of partitions of n into i parts. Then a(n) = sum_{i=3..n} P(n,i). - Thomas Wieder (thomas.wieder(AT)t-online.de), Feb 01 2007

EXAMPLE

a(6)=7 because there are three partitions of n=6 with i=3 parts: [4, 1, 1], [3, 2, 1], [2, 2, 2] and two partitions with i=4 parts: [3, 1, 1, 1], [2, 2, 1, 1] and one partition with i=5 parts: [2, 1, 1, 1, 1]] and one partition with i=6 parts: [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1].

MAPLE

Maple program from Thomas Wieder (thomas.wieder(AT)t-online.de), Feb 01 2007: (Start)

with(combinat);

for i from 1 to 15 do pik(i, 3) od;

pik:= proc(n::integer, k::integer)

# thomas.wieder(AT)t-online.de, 30.01.07

local i, Liste, Result;

if k > n or n < 0 or k < 1 then

return fail

end if;

Result := 0;

for i from k to n do

Liste:= PartitionList(n, i);

#print(Liste);

Result := Result + nops(Liste);

end do;

return Result;

end proc;

PartitionList := proc (n, k)

# Authors: Herbert S. Wilf and Joanna Nordlicht. Source: Lecture Notes "East Side West Side, ..." University of Pennsylvania, USA, 2002. Avalible at: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~wilf/lecnotes.html Calculates the partition of n into k parts. E.g. PartitionList(5, 2) --> [[4, 1], [3, 2]].

local East, West;

if n < 1 or k < 1 or n < k then

RETURN([])

elif n = 1 then

RETURN([[1]])

else if n < 2 or k < 2 or n < k then

West := []

else

West := map(proc (x) options operator, arrow;

[op(x), 1] end proc, PartitionList(n-1, k-1)) end if;

if k <= n-k then

East := map(proc (y) options operator, arrow;

map(proc (x) options operator, arrow; x+1 end proc, y) end proc, PartitionList(n-k, k))

else East := [] end if;

RETURN([op(West), op(East)])

end if;

end proc; # (End)

ZL :=[S, {S = Set(Cycle(Z), 3 <= card)}, unlabelled]: seq(combstruct[count](ZL, size=n), n=1..41); - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Mar 25 2008

B:=[S, {S = Set(Sequence(Z, 1 <= card), card >=3)}, unlabelled]: seq(combstruct[count](B, size=n), n=1..41); # [From Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Mar 21 2009]

MATHEMATICA

Length /(AT) Table[Select[Partitions[n], Length[ # ] >= 3 &], {n, 20}] - Eric Weisstein (eric(AT)weisstein.com), May 16 2007

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000569, A004251, A029889, A035300, A095268.

Sequence in context: A007000 A073472 A096914 * A194805 A084842 A096967

Adjacent sequences:  A004247 A004248 A004249 * A004251 A004252 A004253

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

Definition corrected by Thomas Wieder (thomas.wieder(AT)t-online.de), Feb 01 2007 and by Eric Weisstein (eric(AT)weisstein.com), May 16 2007

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