BrowserUk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
The number of partitions of size k of a set of n elements are known as Stirling numbers of the second kind, and satisfy the recursion:
- S(0, 0) = 1
- S(n, 0) = 0 if n > 0
- S(n, 1) = S(n, n) = 1
- S(n, k) = S(n-1, k-1) + kS(n-1, k)
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Can any Monk put me in my place by transcribing the above description Into English?
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