The papers [18], [9], [21], [14], [23], [6], [24], [2], [3], [8], [10], [1], [22], [7], [11], [20], [16], [19], [4], [5], [13], [12], [17], and [15] provide the terminology and notation for this paper. For simplicity, we adopt the following convention: k, l, m, n, i, j denote natural numbers, K, N denote non empty subsets of N, K1, N1, M1 denote subsets of N, and X, Y denote sets. Let us consid...

Say an integer n is exceptional if the maximum Stirling number of the second kind S(n, k) occurs for two (of necessity consecutive) values of k. We prove that the number of exceptional integers less than or equal to x is O(x), for any ! > 0. We derive a similar result for partitions of n into exactly k integers.

We show how generalized Zagreb indices $M_1^k(G)$ can be computed by using a simple graph polynomial and Stirling numbers of the second kind. In that way we explain and clarify the meaning of a triangle of numbers used to establish the same result in an earlier reference.

The main goal of the present paper is to construct some families of the Carlitz's $q$-Bernoulli polynomials and numbers. We firstly introduce the modified Carlitz's $q$-Bernoulli polynomials and numbers with weight ($_{p}$. We then define the modified degenerate Carlitz's $q$-Bernoulli polynomials and numbers with weight ($alpha ,beta $) and obtain some recurrence relations and other identities...