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The Theory of Compositions (I): the Ordered Factorizations of n and a Conjecture of C. Long

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

George E. Andrews*
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity Park, Pennsylvania16802
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Several years ago, C. Long wrote two papers ([3], [4]) that related to F(n) the number of ordered factorizations of n. The second of these papers [4] was devoted entirely to a discussion of conjectured formula for F(n).

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1975

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