Remember the postman, from your childhood memory, he used to carry postcards, with envelopes. Here is the postman from my hometown, carrying -square-envelopes of different sizes. I unpretentiously asked the following counting problem: In how many different ways, can the envelopes be arranged by inclusion. Obviously the postman is confused, and needs your help. Could you help him in counting ? Here is a small instance: for , let the envelopes are labelled by and is larger than , and denotes that the envelope is inside the envelope , then there are following two ways to arrange the envelopes by inclusion, namely:
, keep them separately
in .
This problem is a part of Tessellate S.T.E.M.S (2019)
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