Binary Stirling Numbers
Time Limit: 1000MS | Memory Limit: 10000K | |
Total Submissions: 1106 | Accepted: 379 |
Description
The Stirling number of the second kind S(n, m) stands for the number of ways to partition a set of n things into m nonempty subsets. For example, there are seven ways to split a four-element set into two parts:
There is a recurrence which allows to compute S(n, m) for all m and n.
{1, 2, 3} U {4}, {1, 2, 4} U {3}, {1, 3, 4} U {2}, {2, 3, 4} U {1}
{1, 2} U {3, 4}, {1, 3} U {2, 4}, {1, 4} U {2, 3}.
There is a recurrence which allows to compute S(n, m) for all m and n.
S(0, 0) = 1; S(n, 0) = 0 for n > 0; S(0, m) = 0 for m