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Programming Tutorial Exercise 12
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This turns out to be a much easier way to solve the problem. Let's
denote Stirling numbers as calls of the function `s'.
First, we store the rewrite rules corresponding to the definition of
Stirling numbers in a convenient variable:
s e StirlingRules RET
[ s(n,n) := 1 :: n >= 0,
s(n,0) := 0 :: n > 0,
s(n,m) := s(n-1,m-1) - (n-1) s(n-1,m) :: n >= m :: m >= 1 ]
C-c C-c
Now, it's just a matter of applying the rules:
2: 4 1: s(4, 2) 1: 11
1: 2 . .
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4 RET 2 C-x ( ' s($$,$) RET a r StirlingRules RET C-x )
As in the case of the `fib' rules, it would be useful to put these
rules in `EvalRules' and to add a `:: remember' condition to the last
rule.