The number of standard desarrangement tableaux of shape equal to the given partition. A '''standard desarrangement tableau''' is a standard tableau whose first ascent is even. Here, an ascent of a standard tableau is an entry $i$ such that $i+1$ appears to the right or above $i$ in the tableau (with respect to English tableau notation). This is also the nullity of the random-to-random operator (and the random-to-top) operator acting on the simple module of the symmetric group indexed by the given partition. See also: * [[St000046]]: The largest eigenvalue of the random to random operator acting on the simple module corresponding to the given partition * [[St000500]]: Eigenvalues of the random-to-random operator acting on the regular representation.

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.