combinat
multinomial
compute the multinomial coefficients
Calling Sequence
Parameters
Description
Examples
multinomial(n, k1, k2, ..., km)
n
-
a positive integer
k1, k2, ..., km
positive integers whose sum is n
The procedure multinomial(n, k1, k2, ..., km) computes the multinomial coefficient denoted equal to where it is assumed that . If , then it is also assumed that ; that is, there are at least 2 arguments.
The command with(combinat,multinomial) allows the use of the abbreviated form of this command.
See Also
binomial
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