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bell: Compute the Bell Number

Description

These functions compute the Bell number (the number of partitions of a given number of items) or its natural logarithm.

Usage

bell(nItems)

lbell(nItems)

Value

A numeric vector of length one giving the Bell number or its natural logarithm.

Arguments

nItems

The size of the set \({1, 2, ..., n}\).

Examples

Run this code
bell(12)
lbell(300)
all.equal( bell(5), exp(lbell(5)) )

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