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A210115
Floor of the expected value of number of trials until exactly four cells are empty in a random distribution of n balls in n cells.
5
625, 50, 13, 5, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 17, 28, 46, 78, 136, 242, 441, 815, 1533, 2927, 5669, 11123, 22090, 44363, 90027, 184482, 381499, 795686, 1672914, 3543925, 7561129, 16240832, 35106812, 76346759, 166982782, 367206632, 811693449
OFFSET
5,1
COMMENTS
Also floor of the expected value of number of trials until we have n-4 distinct symbols in a random sequence on n symbols of length n. A055775 corresponds to zero cells empty.
REFERENCES
W. Feller, An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications, 2nd ed, Wiley, New York, 1965, (2.4) p. 92. (Occupancy problems)
FORMULA
With m = 4, a(n) = floor(n^n/(binomial(n,m)*_Sum{v=0..n-m-1}((-1)^v*binomial(n-m,v)*(n-m-v)^n)))
EXAMPLE
For n=5, there are 5^5 = 3125 sequences on 5 symbols of length 5. Only 5 sequences has a unique symbol, so a(5) = floor(3125/5) = 625.
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Washington Bomfim, Mar 18 2012
STATUS
approved