programming-examples/python/Math/nth Catalan Number.py

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def catalan_number(num):
if num <=1:
return 1
res_num = 0
for i in range(num):
res_num += catalan_number(i) * catalan_number(num-i-1)
return res_num
for n in range(10):
print(catalan_number(n))
# In combinatorial mathematics, the Catalan numbers form a sequence of natural numbers that occur in various counting problems, often involving recursively-defined objects. They are named after the Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan (18141894).
Catalan number
The first Catalan numbers for n = 0, 1, 2, 3, are
1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 132, 429, 1430, 4862, 16796, 58786, 208012, 742900, 2674440, ....