The Eulerian number 〈n k〉 gives the number of permutations of {1, 2, ..., n} having k permutation ascents . Note that a slightly different definition of Eulerian number is used by Comtet, who defines the Eulerian number A(n, k) (sometimes also denoted A_(n, k)) as the number of permutation runs of length k - 1, and hence A(n, k) = 〈n k - 1〉.