Periodicity of the last digits of some combinatorial sequences

2013/08/07 by István Mező, Mező, István · 2 citations
Mathematics · #05A18 #11B73 #Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics #Advanced Mathematical Identities #Analytic Number Theory Research #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1308.1637

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Abstract

In 1962 O. A. Gross proved that the last digits of the Fubini numbers (or surjective numbers) have a simple periodicity property. We extend this result to a wider class of combinatorial numbers coming from restricted set partitions.

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