Yannis Manolopoulos
Abstract
Binomial coefficient computation, i.e. the calculation of the number of combinations of n objects taken k at a time, C(n,k), can be performed either by using recursion or by iteration. Here, we elaborate on a previous report [6], which presented recursive methods on binomial coefficient calculation and propose alternative efficient iterative methods for this purpose.
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