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Determining Maximum Pool Sets Using Binomial Coefficients On Linux and Unix

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 9, 2008

[ Thanks to Mike
Golvach
for this link. ]

“Our objective in this whole set of exercises, again
is: Given a Number Pool of “x through y,” create the maximum
possible Fixed List Length variations of our Fixed List that
contain some variation of our Guaranteed Combination, without any
duplication (i.e. 1, 2, 3 is equal to 2, 3, 1 and would only count
as one match), and return the results.”


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