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Publication Date: 2010-May
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Deranged Exams
Spivey, Michael Z.
College Mathematics Journal, v41 n3 p197-202 May 2010
This article discusses a triangle of numbers that are related to the derangement numbers. These numbers satisfy a Pascal-like recurrence relation with subtraction instead of addition. We describe how they relate to numbers studied by other authors and use them to generalize Euler's famous recurrence relation for the derangement numbers.
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