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In this paper, the authors establish several identities and congruences involving a certain family of numbers associated with the familiar Bernoulli and Euler numbers, the Stirling numbers of the first and second kind, and the central factorial numbers.
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Srivastava, H.M., Liu, G.D. Some identities and congruences involving a certain family of numbers. Russ. J. Math. Phys. 16, 536–542 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1061920809040086
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