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Eulerian number  

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  • In combinatorics, the Eulerian number is the number of permutations of the numbers 1 to in which exactly elements are greater than the previous element (permutations with "ascents"). Leonhard Euler investigated them and associated polynomials in his 1755 book Institutiones calculi differentialis.
    (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulerian_number)

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