A combinatorial survey of identities for the double factorial
Abstract
We survey combinatorial interpretations of some dozen identities for the double factorial such as, for instance, (2n-2)!! + Sumk=2n (2n-1)!!(2k-4)!!/(2k-1)!! = (2n-1)!!. Our methods are mostly bijective.
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