| Title: | Mathematics at DEC |
| Moderator: | RUSURE::EDP |
| Created: | Mon Feb 03 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2083 |
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Not being able to call myself a mathematician, I may be asking a
stupid question. I remember working with the "Binomial theorem"
and I was wondering if there was an extension of this (perhaps
called the "Multinomial theorem") ?
David
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| 493.1 | BEING::POSTPISCHIL | Always mount a scratch monkey. | Tue May 27 1986 13:39 | 18 | |
This is a vague memory I haven't verified, but I think what you
are looking for is a formula for a term in the expansion of:
m-1 n
( sum x[i] )
i = 0
and those terms each have the form:
m-1
n! product x[i]^p[i]/p[i]!
i = 0
so one term might be 6! x[0]^2/2! x[1]^1/1! x[3]^3/3! which equals
60 x[0]^2 x[1] x[3]^3.
-- edp
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