pracma (version 0.7.5)

nchoosek: Binomial Coefficients

Description

Compute the Binomial coefficients.

Usage

nchoosek(n, k)

Arguments

n, k

integers with k between 0 and n

Value

• integer, the Binomial coefficient $({n \over k})$.

Details

Alias for the corresponding R function choose.

See Also

choose

Examples

S <- sapply(0:6, function(k) nchoosek(6, k))  # 1  6 15 20 15  6  1

# Relations
n <- 10
sum((-1)^c(0:n) * sapply(0:n, function(k) nchoosek(n, k)))  # 0