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composition (of an integer)

An ordered sum of positive integers equaling n, where the order of the parts matters.

A composition of $n$ is an ordered sequence of positive integers summing to $n$ ; there are $2^{n-1}$ compositions of $n$ in total.

Examples

1+3 and 3+1 are different compositions of 4.