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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0717.00019.] The Eulerian numbers \(A_{nj}\) are defined by \[ A_{nj}=\sum^ n_{k=0}(-1)^ k{n+1\choose k}(j-k)^ n\qquad (n=0,1,\dots, j=1,2,\dots,n). \] The authors consider the generalization \[ A_{nj}(\delta)=\sum^ n_{k=0}(-1)^ k{n+1\choose k}(\delta+j- k)^ n\qquad(\delta \in R) \] and establish some of its properties. The main theorem of the paper is the following: Write \[ u^{(n)}_ \ell(\delta)=(1/n!)\sum^ n_{k=0}(\delta+j)^ \ell A_{nj}(\delta); \] then u is independent of \(\delta\). As an application in probability theory it is shown that the moments of order \(1,2,\dots,n\) of the distribution with the probability density function \[ f_{nj}(x)=(1/n!)\sum^ n_{k=0}(-1)^ k{n+1\choose k}(j+\delta- k)^ n \] coincide with the corresponding moments of the sum of \(n+1\) independent random variables, each of them uniformly distributed in \((0,1)\).