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Re: A special kind of partitions of an integer

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  • Subject: [mg48162] Re: A special kind of partitions of an integer
  • From: drbob at bigfoot.com (Bobby R. Treat)
  • Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 20:59:32 -0400 (EDT)
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The same problem was solved in another thread, a few weeks ago. Also
look up CatalanNumber in Help; it counts the number of these
partitions.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&frame=right&th=ff1de8017f9f5222&seekm=c38uvb%24g39%241%40smc.vnet.net#link2

wolf[{arg_}, op_] := {arg}
wolf[{args__}, op_] := Flatten[ReplaceList[{args}, {a__, b__} :>
Outer[
    op, wolf[{a}, op], wolf[{b}, op], 1]], 2]

wolf[Array[1 &, 5], CenterDot]

Displaying with Plus is a bit tricky:

stringIt[a_, b_] := "(" <> ToString[a] <> "+" <> ToString[b] <> ")"
List @@ (2 @@ wolf[Array[1 &, 5], List] /. List -> stringIt)

DrBob

Cezar Augusto de Freitas Anselmo <cafa at ime.unicamp.br> wrote in message news:<c81hq6$4uc$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> Dear friends,
>  
>  I'm looking in literature theory of certain partitions of a integer. 
>   
>  Have you worked with partitions of a integer n in n terms where the 
>  summation is not associative (or know someone or texts about it, or 
>  other discussion list)? 
>   
>  Example: 
>  I have to count P(n): the number of partitions of n with n positive 
>  integers (the only so integer is one) terms where the + operator is not 
>  associative, but is commutative; but the recurrence isn't simple. See 
>  below 
>   
>  2 = (1+1); 
>  (thus P(2)=1) 
>  3 = ((1+1)+1); 
>  (thus P(3)=1) 
>  4 = (((1+1)+1)+1), ((1+1)+(1+1)); 
>  (thus P(4)=2) 
>  = ((((1+1)+1)+1)+1), (((1+1)+(1+1))+1), (((1+1)+1)+(1+1)); 
>  (thus P(5)=3) 
>   
>   
>  P(6)=6  
>  P(7)=11 
>  
>  Thanks for all help,
>  
>  -- 
>  ========================================
>  Cézar Freitas (ICQ 109128967)
>  IMECC - UNICAMP / IME - USP
>  Campinas / São Paulo, SP - Brasil


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