1THE JOHN KNOPFMACHER CENTRE FOR APPLICABLE ANALY- sis AND NUMBER THEORY, UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, P. O. Wits, 2050 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA,
2MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT, SAN FRANCISCO StaTE UNIVERSITY, CA 94132, U.S.A.,
We consider compositions or ordered partitions of the natural number n for which the largest (resp. smallest) summand occurs in the first position of the composition.
