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A105749 Number of ways to use the elements of {1,..,k}, 0<=k<=2n, once each to form a sequence of n sets, each having 1 or 2 elements. 6
1, 2, 14, 222, 6384, 291720, 19445040, 1781750880, 214899027840, 33007837322880, 6290830003852800, 1456812592995513600, 402910665227270323200, 131173228963370155161600, 49656810289225281849907200 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

Equivalently, number of sequences of n labeled items such that each item occurs just once or twice. - David Applegate, Dec 08 2008

LINKS

R. A. Proctor, Let's Expand Rota's Twelvefold Way for Counting Partitions!, arXiv math.CO.0606404.

Index entries for related partition-counting sequences

FORMULA

Sum[C(n, k)*(n+k)!/2^k, 0<=k<=n]

EXAMPLE

14 = |{ ({1},{2}), ({2},{1}), ({1},{2,3}), ({2,3},{1}), ({2},{1,3}), ({1,3},{2}), ({3},{1,2}), ({1,2},{3}), ({1,2},{3,4}), ({3,4},{1,2}), ({1,3},{2,4}), ({2,4},{1,3}), ({1,4},{2,3}), ({2,3},{1,4}) }|

MATHEMATICA

f[n_] := Sum[ Binomial[n, k](n + k)!/2^k, {k, 0, n}]; Table[ f[n], {n, 0, 14}]

CROSSREFS

a(n) = n!*A001515(n). See also A143990.

A003011(n) = Sum[C(n, k)*a(k), 0<=k<=n].

Replace "sets" by "lists": A099022.

Sequence in context: A034405 A197210 A153668 * A118086 A048163 A093548

Adjacent sequences:  A105746 A105747 A105748 * A105750 A105751 A105752

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

Robert A. Proctor (www.math.unc.edu/Faculty/rap/), Apr 18 2005

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Apr 23 2005

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