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| 1 | +# Bell Numbers Problem using Dynamic Programming |
| 2 | +Language used : **Python 3** |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +## 🎯 Aim |
| 5 | +The aim of this script is to find out the nth Bell numbers using Dynamic Programming method.. |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +## 👉 Purpose |
| 8 | +The main purpose of this script is to show the implementation of Dynamic Programming to find out nth Bell Numbers. |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +## 📄 Description |
| 11 | +- **What is Bell Number ?** -- Let `S(n, k)` be total number of partitions of n elements into k sets. The value of n’th Bell Number is sum of `S(n, k)` for `k = 1 to n`. Value of `S(n, k)` can be defined recursively as, `S(n+1, k) = k*S(n, k) + S(n, k-1)`. |
| 12 | +- Given a set of n elements, find number of ways of partitioning it. |
| 13 | +Examples: |
| 14 | +``` |
| 15 | +Input: n = 2 |
| 16 | +Output: Number of ways = 2 |
| 17 | +Explanation: Let the set be {1, 2} |
| 18 | + { {1}, {2} } |
| 19 | + { {1, 2} } |
| 20 | +``` |
| 21 | +## 📈 Workflow of the script |
| 22 | +- `bellNumber` -- This is the working function which will check and return the nth bell numbers one after another using the Dynamic Programming method. |
| 23 | +- `main` - This is the driver program for this script. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +## 📃 Explanation |
| 26 | +When we add a (n+1)’th element to k partitions, there are two possibilities. |
| 27 | +1) It is added as a single element set to existing partitions, i.e, S(n, k-1) |
| 28 | +2) It is added to all sets of every partition, i.e., k*S(n, k) |
| 29 | +S(n, k) is called Stirling numbers of the second kind |
| 30 | +First few Bell numbers are 1, 1, 2, 5, 15, 52, 203, …. |
| 31 | +A Simple Method to compute n’th Bell Number is to one by one compute S(n, k) for k = 1 to n and return sum of all computed values. Refer this for computation of S(n, k). |
| 32 | +A Better Method is to use Bell Triangle. Below is a sample Bell Triangle for first few Bell Numbers. |
| 33 | +``` |
| 34 | +1 |
| 35 | +1 2 |
| 36 | +2 3 5 |
| 37 | +5 7 10 15 |
| 38 | +15 20 27 37 52 |
| 39 | +``` |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +## 🧮 Algorithm |
| 42 | +The triangle is constructed using below formula. |
| 43 | +``` |
| 44 | +// If this is first column of current row 'i' |
| 45 | +If j == 0 |
| 46 | + // Then copy last entry of previous row |
| 47 | + // Note that i'th row has i entries |
| 48 | + Bell(i, j) = Bell(i-1, i-1) |
| 49 | +
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| 50 | +// If this is not first column of current row |
| 51 | +Else |
| 52 | + // Then this element is sum of previous element |
| 53 | + // in current row and the element just above the |
| 54 | + // previous element |
| 55 | + Bell(i, j) = Bell(i-1, j-1) + Bell(i, j-1) |
| 56 | +``` |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +**Interpretation :** |
| 59 | +Then Bell(n, k) counts the number of partitions of the set {1, 2, …, n + 1} in which the element k + 1 is the largest element that can be alone in its set. |
| 60 | +For example, Bell(3, 2) is 3, it is count of number of partitions of {1, 2, 3, 4} in which 3 is the largest singleton element. There are three such partitions: |
| 61 | +``` |
| 62 | + {1}, {2, 4}, {3} |
| 63 | + {1, 4}, {2}, {3} |
| 64 | + {1, 2, 4}, {3}. |
| 65 | +``` |
| 66 | +## 💻 Input and Output |
| 67 | +- **Test Case 1 :** |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +- **Test Case 2 :** |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +- **Test Case 3 :** |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | + |
| 80 | +## ⏰ Time and Space complexity |
| 81 | +- **Time Complexity:** `O(n^2)`. |
| 82 | + |
| 83 | +--------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 84 | +## 🖋️ Author |
| 85 | +**Code contributed by, _Abhishek Sharma_, 2021 [@abhisheks008](github.com/abhisheks008)** |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | +[](https://www.python.org/) |
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