We use a sign-reversing involution to show that trees on the vertex set [n], considered to be rooted at 1, in which no vertex has exactly one child are counted by 1/n sum_{k=1}^{n} (-1)^(n-k) {n}-choose-{k} (n-1)!/(k-1)! k^(k-1). This result corrects
a persistent misprint in the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
We show that permutations of size $n$ avoiding both of the dashed patterns 32-41 and 41-32 are equinumerous with indecomposable set partitions of size $n+1$, and deduce a related result.
We show that a determinant of Stirling cycle numbers counts unlabeled acyclic single-source automata. The proof involves a bijection from these automata to certain marked lattice paths and a sign-reversing involution to evaluate the determinant.
