'use strict'; var isPositiveInteger = require('../../util/bignumber').isPositiveInteger; // FIXME: this disables using bellNumbers without loading BigNumbers function factory (type, config, load, typed) { var add = load(require('../arithmetic/add')); var stirlingS2 = load(require('./stirlingS2')); /** * The Bell Numbers count the number of partitions of a set. A partition is a pairwise disjoint subset of S whose union is S. * bellNumbers only takes integer arguments. * The following condition must be enforced: n >= 0 * * Syntax: * * math.bellNumbers(n) * * Examples: * * math.bellNumbers(3); // returns 5; * math.bellNumbers(8); // returns 4140; * * See also: * * stirlingS2 * * @param {Number | BigNumber} n Total number of objects in the set * @return {Number | BigNumber} B(n) */ return typed('bellNumbers', { 'number | BigNumber': function (n) { if (!isPositiveInteger(n)) { throw new TypeError('Positive integer value expected in function bellNumbers'); } // Sum (k=0, n) S(n,k). var result = 0; for(var i = 0; i <= n; i++) { result = add(result, stirlingS2(n, i)); } return result; } }); } exports.name = 'bellNumbers'; exports.factory = factory;