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A fast way to calculate binomial coefficients in python (Andrew Dalke)
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def binomial(n, k): | |
""" | |
A fast way to calculate binomial coefficients by Andrew Dalke. | |
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3025162/statistics-combinations-in-python | |
""" | |
if 0 <= k <= n: | |
ntok = 1 | |
ktok = 1 | |
for t in xrange(1, min(k, n - k) + 1): | |
ntok *= n | |
ktok *= t | |
n -= 1 | |
return ntok // ktok | |
else: | |
return 0 |
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Try this....a short way by importing
comb
frommath
libraryfrom math import comb
def coefficient(n,r):
return comb(n,r)
print(coefficient(5,2))
Change coefficient values to your desire