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The local central limit theorem for Stirling numbers of the second kind and an estimate for bell numbers

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Menon, V.V. (1981). The local central limit theorem for Stirling numbers of the second kind and an estimate for bell numbers. In: Rao, S.B. (eds) Combinatorics and Graph Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 885. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0092277

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