Bell number
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after Eric Temple Bell, who wrote about them in the 1930s.
Noun[edit]
Bell number (plural Bell numbers)
- (combinatorics) Any member of a sequence of numbers that count the possible partitions of a set, such that the nth number Bn is the number of different ways to partition a set that has exactly n elements.