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noun
Any member of a sequence of numbers that count the possible partitions of a set, such that the nth number Bn is the number of different ways to partition a set that has exactly n elements.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: combinatorics, mathematics, sciences
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History
Named after Eric Temple Bell, who wrote about them in the 1930s.
