Talk:Combinations: Difference between revisions

: We can't talk about correctness of the equation without also talking about the definitions of the terms which appear in those equations. A few quick tests show that both the equation on the page for combinations and some of the wikipedia expressions are using different definitions from what would be appropriate for the "3" and "5" used in the initial example for this task. For example, if we look at all the combinations of five things drawn from a set of 5, we would expect only one valid combination (all of them). If we believe that 5 is n and 5 is k, we come up with 11 factorial divided by 5 factorial times 6 factorial (which is a number different from 1). --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 14:19, 23 May 2013 (UTC)