Difference between largest and smallest parts in a partition.

The number of mid points of decreasing subsequences of length 3 in a permutation. For a permutation $\pi$ of $\{1,\ldots,n\}$, this is the number of indices $j$ such that there exist indices $i,k$ with $i < j < k$ and $\pi(i) > \pi(j) > \pi(k)$. In other words, this is the number of indices that are neither left-to-right maxima nor right-to-left minima. This statistic can also be expressed as the number of occurrences of the mesh pattern ([3,2,1], {(0,2),(0,3),(2,0),(3,0)}): the shading fixes the first and the last element of the decreasing subsequence. See also [[St000119]].

The number of mid points of increasing subsequences of length 3 in a permutation. For a permutation $\pi$ of $\{1,\ldots,n\}$, this is the number of indices $j$ such that there exist indices $i,k$ with $i < j < k$ and $\pi(i) < \pi(j) < \pi(k)$. The generating function is given by [1].

The hat guessing number of a graph. Suppose that each vertex of a graph corresponds to a player, wearing a hat whose color is arbitrarily chosen from a set of $q$ possible colors. Each player can see the hat colors of his neighbors, but not his own hat color. All of the players are asked to guess their own hat colors simultaneously, according to a predetermined guessing strategy and the hat colors they see, where no communication between them is allowed. The hat guessing number $HG(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the largest integer $q$ such that there exists a guessing strategy guaranteeing at least one correct guess for any hat assignment of $q$ possible colors. Because it suffices that a single player guesses correctly, the hat guessing number of a graph is the maximum of the hat guessing numbers of its connected components.