Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stirling number of the second kind

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English

Syllables: stir-ling num-ber of the sec-ond kind
IPA

48

Scrabble Score

29

Letters

4

Syllables

17

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The number of ways to partition a set of n objects into k non-empty subsets, denoted by S(n,k).

Inflected Forms

Stirling numbers of the second kind (plural)

Synonyms

Stirling partition number

Questions

What does stirling number of the second kind mean?: The number of ways to partition a set of n objects into k non-empty subsets, denoted by S(n,k).

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