Generating Functions

★★★★☆Undergraduate

📖Definition

Tool encoding sequences as coefficients of polynomials or power series to solve combinatorial problems

📐Formulas

OGF: G(x) = Σaₙxⁿ
EGF: E(x) = Σaₙxⁿ/n!
Fibonacci: G(x) = x/(1-x-x²)

✏️Examples

예제 1

Partition numbers

예제 2

Catalan numbers

예제 3

Stirling numbers

Applications

Solving recurrences

Combinatorial identities

Probability

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