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Bell's triangle or Aitken's array or Peirce triangle is a triangular arrangement of integers in which the top row has a single 1, and each subsequent row begins with the last number of the previous row, and each remaining number in a row is the sum of the number to the left to the number above left.
The first eight rows are:
$$\begin{array}{cccccccccccccccccc} & & & & & & & & & 1 & & & & & & & &\\ & & & & & & & & 1 & & 2 & & & & & & &\\ & & & & & & & 2 & & 3 & & 5 & & & & & &\\ & & & & & & 5 & & 7 & & 10 & & 15 & & & & &\\ & & & & & 15 & & 20 & & 27 & & 37 & & 52 & & & &\\ & & & & 52 & & 67 & & 87 & & 114 & & 151 & & 203 & & &\\ & & & 203 & & 255 & & 322 & & 409 & & 523 & & 674 & & 877 & &\\ & & 877 & & 1080 & & 1335 & & 1657 & & 2066 & & 2589 & & 3263 & & 4140 &\\ &
& & & &\vdots & & & & \vdots & & & & \vdots& & & & \\ \end{array}$$
These are listed in A011971 of Sloane's OEIS.
The left outermost diagonal gives the Bell numbers (1, 2, 5, 15, 52, 203, 877, 4140, etc.) in order.
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