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New proofs of Melzak’s identity

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In their recent book (Quaintance, Combinatorial identities for Stirling numbers: the unpublished notes of H. W. Gould, World Scientific, Singapore, 2016) on combinatorial identities, Quaintance and Gould devoted one chapter (Quaintance 2016, Chap. 7) to Melzak’s identity. We give new proofs for this identity and its generalization.

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The author is grateful to Professor Jocelyn Quaintance for helpful discussions. Furthermore, he thanks the anonymous referee for pointing out the recent book [2].

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Abel, U. New proofs of Melzak’s identity. Aequat. Math. 94, 163–167 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00010-019-00659-4

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