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## Copyright (C) 2001-2013 Rolf Fabian and Paul Kienzle
## Copyright (C) 2008 Jaroslav Hajek
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
## your option) any later version.
##
## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
## General Public License for more details.
##
## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{c} =} nchoosek (@var{n}, @var{k})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{c} =} nchoosek (@var{set}, @var{k})
##
## Compute the binomial coefficient or all combinations of a set of items.
##
## If @var{n} is a scalar then calculate the binomial coefficient
## of @var{n} and @var{k} which is defined as
## @tex
## $$
## {n \choose k} = {n (n-1) (n-2) \cdots (n-k+1) \over k!}
## = {n! \over k! (n-k)!}
## $$
## @end tex
## @ifnottex
##
## @example
## @group
## / \
## | n | n (n-1) (n-2) @dots{} (n-k+1) n!
## | | = ------------------------- = ---------
## | k | k! k! (n-k)!
## \ /
## @end group
## @end example
##
## @end ifnottex
## @noindent
## This is the number of combinations of @var{n} items taken in groups of
## size @var{k}.
##
## If the first argument is a vector, @var{set}, then generate all
## combinations of the elements of @var{set}, taken @var{k} at a time, with
## one row per combination. The result @var{c} has @var{k} columns and
## @w{@code{nchoosek (length (@var{set}), @var{k})}} rows.
##
## For example:
##
## How many ways can three items be grouped into pairs?
##
## @example
## @group
## nchoosek (3, 2)
## @result{} 3
## @end group
## @end example
##
## What are the possible pairs?
##
## @example
## @group
## nchoosek (1:3, 2)
## @result{} 1 2
## 1 3
## 2 3
## @end group
## @end example
##
## @code{nchoosek} works only for non-negative, integer arguments. Use
## @code{bincoeff} for non-integer and negative scalar arguments, or for
## computing many binomial coefficients at once with vector inputs
## for @var{n} or @var{k}.
##
## @seealso{bincoeff, perms}
## @end deftypefn
## Author: Rolf Fabian <fabian@tu-cottbus.de>
## Author: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle@users.sf.net>
## Author: Jaroslav Hajek
function A = nchoosek (v, k)
if (nargin != 2
|| !isnumeric (k) || !isnumeric (v)
|| !isscalar (k) || ! (isscalar (v) || isvector (v)))
print_usage ();
endif
if (k < 0 || k != fix (k)
|| (isscalar (v) && (v < k || v < 0 || v != fix (v))))
error ("nchoosek: args are non-negative integers with V not less than K");
endif
n = length (v);
if (n == 1)
## Improve precision at next step.
k = min (k, v-k);
A = round (prod ((v-k+1:v)./(1:k)));
if (A*2*k*eps >= 0.5)
warning ("nchoosek", "nchoosek: possible loss of precision");
endif
elseif (k == 0)
A = [];
elseif (k == 1)
A = v(:);
elseif (k == n)
A = v(:).';
elseif (k > n)
A = zeros (0, k, class (v));
elseif (k == 2)
## Can do it without transpose.
x = repelems (v(1:n-1), [1:n-1; n-1:-1:1]).';
y = cat (1, cellslices (v(:), 2:n, n*ones (1, n-1)){:});
A = [x, y];
elseif (k < n)
v = v(:).';
A = v(k:n);
l = 1:n-k+1;
for j = 2:k
c = columns (A);
cA = cellslices (A, l, c*ones (1, n-k+1), 2);
l = c-l+1;
b = repelems (v(k-j+1:n-j+1), [1:n-k+1; l]);
A = [b; cA{:}];
l = cumsum (l);
l = [1, 1 + l(1:n-k)];
endfor
clear cA b;
A = A.';
endif
endfunction
%!assert (nchoosek (80,10), bincoeff (80,10))
%!assert (nchoosek (1:5,3), [1:3;1,2,4;1,2,5;1,3,4;1,3,5;1,4,5;2:4;2,3,5;2,4,5;3:5])
%% Test input validation
%!warning nchoosek (100,45);
%!error nchoosek ("100", 45)
%!error nchoosek (100, "45")
%!error nchoosek (100, ones (2,2))
%!error nchoosek (repmat (100, [2 2]), 45)
%!error nchoosek (100, -45)
%!error nchoosek (100, 45.5)
%!error nchoosek (100, 145)
%!error nchoosek (-100, 45)
%!error nchoosek (100.5, 45)
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