What is the most efficient method to evaluate the value of n choose k ? The brute force way I think would be to find n factorial / k factorial / (n-k) factorial .
A better strategy may be to use dp according to this recursive formula. Is there any other better method to evaluate n choose k ?
N Choose K Calculator is a free online tool that displays the number of ways to choose the elements irrespective of the order from the set.
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(pronounced “n choose k” ) is the number of distinct subsets of size k of a set of size n. More informally, it's the number of different ways you can choose k things from a collection of n of them (hence n choose k).
Here is my version, which works purely in integers (the division by k always produces an integer quotient) and is fast at O(k):
function choose(n, k) if k == 0 return 1 return (n * choose(n - 1, k - 1)) / k
I wrote it recursively because it's so simple and pretty, but you could transform it to an iterative solution if you like.
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