Partition

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A partition of a number is a way of expressing it as the sum of some number of positive integers. For example, the partitions of 3 are: 3, 2+1, and 1+1+1 (notice how the order of the addends is disregarded). There is no known, simple formula that gives the number of partitions of a number.

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