Expected Number of Cycles of Any Length of A Random Permutation
We construct the bivariate generating function using, where is one for all cycles (every cycle contributes one to the total number of cycles).
Note that has the closed form
and generates the unsigned Stirling numbers of the first kind.
We have
Hence the expected number of cycles is, or about .
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