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This chapter is basically devoted to various results on formal series. The relation with counting problems is clear: for a sequence of integers with combinatorial meaning, the existence of a ‘simple’ formula is most frequently equivalent with the existence of a ‘simple’ generating function.
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Comtet, L. (1974). Identities and Expansions. In: Advanced Combinatorics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2196-8_3
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