Multinomial coefficient

The multinomial coefficientis used to denote the number of possible partitions of objects into groups having numerosity .

The coefficient takes its name from the following multinomial expansion:where and the sum is over all the -tuples such that:

The lecture entitled Partitions into groups provides an in-depth presentation of the multinomial coefficient.

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