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Easy count (Posted on 2014-07-29) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Let S be a set of some positive integers.
We'll call S autonomous if the number of elements in S is itself an element of S. e.g. the set {2,3,5} is autonomous, as is the set {2,7}, but the sets {1, 4} or {2,4,5} are not.

Determine a general formula for the number
of autonomous subsets of {1, 2, 3, ... , n}.

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re(2): Solution Comment 5 of 5 |
(In reply to re: Solution by Charlie)

  Not quite.

The nunber of n/a sets is 2^(n-1) - the empty set is in.

  Posted by Ady TZIDON on 2014-07-30 17:00:49
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