Sunday, 11 August 2013

Show this equality (The factorial as an alternate sum with binomial coefficients).

Show this equality (The factorial as an alternate sum with binomial
coefficients).

Why the following equality holds? $$n!=\sum_{k=1}^n (-1)^{n-k}
\binom{n}{k} k^n$$ (I checked with mathematica it is true for n<1000.)

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