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NonOverlappingDescents on Permutation ​

Descents taken greedily left to right, none starting where the last one ended.

On Permutation

Each maximal descending run of length m contributes floor(m / 2).

Called as CombinatorialStat(x, "NonOverlappingDescents"). The head's page has its examples.

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FindStat St001928

The number of non-overlapping descents in a permutation.

ObjectValue
[1]0
[1,2]0
[2,1]1
[1,2,3]0
[1,3,2]1
[2,1,3]1
[2,3,1]1
[3,1,2]1

Data from FindStat, the combinatorial statistic finder; the page at findstat.org/St001928 has the rest.