A Ferrers diagram of an integer partition is a left-aligned array of dots with dots in row , using the longest row at the top here. Replacing each dot by a square cell gives a Young diagram. Reading the column lengths gives the conjugate partition.[ref]
Enumerative Combinatorics, Volume 1 (second-edition draft) by Richard Stanley. section 1.7, Ferrers and Young diagrams
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