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Calculate Bell numbers.
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_a_set#Counting_partitions
bell = function(n) {
ifelse(n > 0,
sum(Vectorize(function(n, k) {
choose(n - 1, k) * bell(k)
}, "k")(n, 0:(n - 1))),
1)
}
bell(5)
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