Stirling numbers of the second kind
This online calculator outputs Stirling numbers of the second kind for the given n
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In combinatorics, a Stirling number of the second kind (or Stirling partition number) is the number of ways to partition a set of n objects into k non-empty subsets and is denoted by S(n,k)1. This online calculator calculates the Stirling number of the second kind for the given n, for each k from 0 to n and outputs results into a table. Note that this calculator uses the "big integers" library (see Tips and tricks #9: Big numbers), so you can try pretty big n values.
For example, the number of ways to partition a set of 100 objects into 28 non-empty subsets is 77697 3005359874 5155212806 6127875847 8739787812 8370115840 9749925701 0238608628 9805848025 0748224048 4354517896 0761551674. A combinatorial explosion, that is :)
For those who curious, the explicit formula is listed below the calculator.
Stirling numbers of the second kind
Stirling numbers formula
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Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, Oren Patashnik (1988) Concrete Mathematics, Addison–Wesley, Reading MA. ISBN 0-201-14236-8, p. 244. ↩
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