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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2016 Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics and probability 1 d ii Solution by
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Starting from singleton blocks, a partition of a set into nonempty blocks has exactly one block of size two and all other blocks of size one: the sum of the block sizes exceeds the number of blocks by exactly one. Choosing that pair determines the partition uniquely. HenceThis fixed value of works for every . It is forced already by : , whereas for positive the only equal to one is .
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