With offset 1 = binomial transform of the Bell numbers, A000110 starting (1, 1, 1, 2, 5, 15, 52, 203, ...). - Gary W. Adamson, Dec 04 2008
a(n) is the number of partitions of the set {1,2,...,n} in which n is either a singleton or it is in a block of consecutive integers. Example: a(3)=4 because we have 123, 1-23, 12-3, and 1-2-3. Deleting the blocks containing n=3, we obtain: empty, 1, 12, 1-2, i.e., all the partitions of the sets: empty, {1}, and {1,2}. - Emeric Deutsch, May 01 2010
REFERENCES
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
J. Riordan, A budget of rhyme scheme counts, pp. 455 - 465 of Second International Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics, New York, 1978. Edited by Allan Gewirtz and Louis V. Quintas. Annals New York Academy of Sciences, 319, 1979.
FORMULA
a(0) = 0; for n >= 0, a(n+1) = 1 + Sum_{j=1..n} (C(n, j)-C(n, j+1))*a(j).