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#26 2013-02-20 08:03:25
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Combinations 6 of 49 without the results with numbers in sequence
Where does what come from?
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#27 2013-02-20 08:03:53
- bobbym
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Re: Combinations 6 of 49 without the results with numbers in sequence
Hmmmm, the recurrence of course.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#28 2013-02-20 08:04:59
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Combinations 6 of 49 without the results with numbers in sequence
I found it using some simple casework.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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#29 2013-02-20 08:12:55
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Re: Combinations 6 of 49 without the results with numbers in sequence
Casework is never simple and you must always be thinking of the form of your solution. Most math types are notorioulsy bad problem solvers. Just take a look at all those equations that they think are beautiful and are not worth a dime computationally.
What if this solution takes 1.2 million years to run?
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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#30 2013-02-20 08:18:43
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Combinations 6 of 49 without the results with numbers in sequence
I hope it doesn't. I don't have much time. We have some tests next week.
I proposed that recurrence as a pathway to an analytic solution, not for computation.
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#31 2013-02-20 08:24:34
- bobbym
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Re: Combinations 6 of 49 without the results with numbers in sequence
I proposed that recurrence as a pathway to an analytic solution, not for computation
It is not going to be easy to solve that recurrence.
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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#32 2013-02-20 11:11:47
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Combinations 6 of 49 without the results with numbers in sequence
I think a multivariate GF can be found for A(n,k) from the recurrence.
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#33 2013-02-20 12:39:37
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Re: Combinations 6 of 49 without the results with numbers in sequence
You will have to do it by hand but why would you? Why do all that work when you do not even know whether it works or not.
I stress my approach of first having the answer. The experimental way. I have not convinced you of this yet and the remnants of your math education you are tenaciously holding on to.
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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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