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Let us give a survey of the three most frequently occurring notations: numbers of the first kind = s(n, k) (Riordan, and also this book,...) = S k n (Jordan, Mitrinović,...) = (-1)n-kS1(n-1, n-k) (Gould, Hagen,...); numbers of the second kind = S(n, k) = \( S\left( {n,k} \right) = \mathfrak{S}_{\user1{n}}^k = {S_2}\left( {k,n - k} \right) \) = S 2 (k, n-k).
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© 1974 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Comtet, L. (1974). Stirling Numbers. In: Advanced Combinatorics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2196-8_5
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