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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=combinatorics">combinatorial</a> <a href="page.php?w=mathematics">mathematics</a>, the <b>Prüfer sequence</b> (also <b>Prüfer code</b> or <b>Prüfer numbers</b>) of a <a href="page.php?w=labeled_tree">labeled tree</a> is a unique <a href="page.php?w=sequence">sequence</a> associated with the tree.  The sequence for a tree on  vertices has length , and can be generated by a simple iterative algorithm.  Prüfer sequences were first used by <a href="page.php?w=Heinz_Pr%C3%BCfer">Heinz Prüfer</a> to prove <a href="page.php?w=Cayley%27s_formula">Cayley's formula</a></p><p>
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