with the first five Bell numbers :
\begin{array}{llllll} &&&&&Total\\ 1 &&&&&1 \\ 0 & 1 &&&&1\\ 0 & 1 & 1 & &&2\\ 0 & 1 & 3 & 1 & &5\\ 0 & 1 & 7 & 6 & 1&15 \end{array}
A beautiful recurrence formula for the Bell number is
B(n) = \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} B(k) \cdot C(n-1,k) ,
for example for n=4 we get: 1* 1+ 1*3 + 2*3 + 5*1 = 15.
I now have the sixth edition of the book Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications by Kenneth Rosen.
A great book which comes with the best accompanying student website I have seen sofar for a mathematics book. It probably takes hours to just to browse through all the applets.
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