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Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind

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What is the value of $S(2, 1)$?

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$S(2, 1)$ represents the number of ways to partition a set of 2 elements into 1 nonempty subset. There is only one way to do this, so $S(2, 1) = 1$.

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