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Number of permutations on [n] admitting an eighth root.
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%I #6 Sep 09 2014 07:54:16

%S 1,1,1,3,9,45,225,1575,11025,99225,893025,9823275,108056025,

%T 1404728325,18261468225,273922023375,4108832377650,69850150420050,

%U 1187452281465450,22561593347843550,428670250038780750,9002075250814395750,189043575317350503750

%N Number of permutations on [n] admitting an eighth root.

%H Alois P. Heinz, <a href="/A247006/b247006.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..300</a>

%H H. S. Wilf, <a href="http://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/DownldGF.html">Generatingfunctionology</a>, 2nd edn., Academic Press, NY, 1994, Theorem 4.8.2.

%p with(combinat): with(numtheory): with(padic):

%p b:= proc(n, i) option remember; `if`(n=0, 1, `if`(i<1, 0, add(

%p `if`(irem(j, mul(p^ordp(8, p), p=factorset(i)))=0, (i-1)!^j*

%p multinomial(n, n-i*j, i$j)/j!*b(n-i*j, i-1), 0), j=0..n/i)))

%p end:

%p a:= n-> b(n$2):

%p seq(a(n), n=0..25);

%Y Column k=8 of A247005.

%K nonn

%O 0,4

%A _Alois P. Heinz_, Sep 09 2014