Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4651200 | Discrete Mathematics | 2006 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
An M-partition of a positive integer mm is a partition of mm with as few parts as possible such that every positive integer less than mm can be written as a sum of parts taken from the partition. This type of partition is a variation of MacMahon's perfect partition, and was recently introduced and studied by O’Shea, who showed that for half the numbers mm, the number of M-partitions of mm is equal to the number of binary partitions of 2n+1-1-m2n+1-1-m, where n=⌊log2m⌋. In this note we extend O’Shea's result to cover all numbers mm.
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Authors
Øystein J. Rødseth,