Binomial Coefficient

Pascal Bauer hero.of.butterflies at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 09:45:26 CST 2009


Hi List,

it seems to me, that the routine which calculate the binomial coefficient
has a problem (it gives wrong answers).

octave:1> printf("%i\n",nchoosek(81, 27))
2306279447501836648448

But the correct value is

2306279447501851002720

Cheers

Pasci
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