Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4651200 Discrete Mathematics 2006 5 Pages PDF
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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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
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