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xt_n_choose_k(3) Library Functions Manual xt_n_choose_k(3) NAME xt_n_choose_k() - Compute binomial coefficient N choose K LIBRARY #include <xtend/math.h> -lxtend SYNOPSIS #include <stdint.h> #include "math.h" unsigned long xt_n_choose_k(unsigned long n, unsigned long k) ARGUMENTS n Number of items to choose from k Number of items chosen DESCRIPTION Compute the binomial coefficient N choose K = N! / (K! * (N-K)!). This represents the number of ways to choose K items out of a pool of N, such that we don't care about order. E.g., if choosing 2 letters from the set [A B C D E], [C D] is considered the same [D C]. This implementation avoids overflow by alternating multiply and divide operations (rather than try to compute factorials first, which will fail for relatively small values of N or K). RETURN VALUES The number of ways to choose K items from N objects. EXAMPLES #include <xtend/math.h> unsigned long n = 5, k = 2; printf("Ways to choose %lu items from %lu = %lun", k, n, xt_n_choose_k(n, k)); SEE ALSO lgamma(3) xt_n_choose_k(3)
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