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  • Ferrers' partitioning diagram for 14
    combinatorics
    / Multinomial coefficients

    If S is a set of n objects and if n1, n2,…, nk are non-negative integers satisfying n1 + n2 +⋯+ nk = n, then the number of ways in which the objects can be distributed into k boxes,

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    If S is a set of n objects and if n1, n2,…, nk are non-negative integers satisfying n1 + n2 +⋯+ nk = n, then the number of ways in which the objects can be distributed into k boxes,

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