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What is the number of squares in $S_n$?

Coefficient of $\frac{1}{1-x-x^2-..-x^{d-1}}$ and its asymptotic

Is it possible, solely with the function $f(x) = \sum_{n>0} a_nx^n$, to obtain the function $\sum_{n>0} \frac{a_n}{n!} x^n$?

Binomial Coefficient

Simplifying $\sum_{r = 0}^{n} {{n}\choose{r}}r^k(-1)^r$

Words built from $\{0,1,2\}$ with restrictions which are not so easy to accomodate.

Poisson distribution with exponential parameter

Why is it important to have the closed form of a generating function?

Identity with Harmonic and Catalan numbers

Using generating functions find the sum $1^3 + 2^3 + 3^3 +\dotsb+ n^3$

Important identities that can be obtained by manipulating the function $\frac{x}{e^x-1} = \frac{B_0}{0!} + \frac{B_1}{1!}x + \frac{B_2}{2!}x^2 + ...$?

Deriving the asymptotic estimate (9.62) in Concrete Mathematics

Show that $\sum_{k=1}^n \binom{n}{k}k^2=n^2\cdot \:2^{n-2}+n\cdot \:2^{n-2}$.

Power series expansion of $\arctan{\left(\frac{1-x^2}{2+x^2}\right)}$

Bernoulli numbers generating function

Generalized Harmonic Number Summation $ \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} {2^{-n}}{(H_{n}^{(2)})^2}$

Why would you take the logarithmic derivative of a generating function?

Integral Representation of Infinite series

Find the generating function of $f(n) = \sum_{k = 0}^n \binom{n}{k} (-1)^{n-k}C_{k}$

Harmonic Numbers series I