What are the number of possible partitions of a set containing n elements?

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This question rises immediately if we try to enumerate the number of possible equivalence relations on a set with n elements.

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The number of partitions of a finite set is counted by Bell numbers, summing up Stirling numbers. See a similar question here: Number of equivalence relations on a finite set