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Use bigint Binomial for Choose function #29
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A comment in the original said,
The choose function is also known as the binomial coefficient, and this exists in math/big for Ints.
What
This PR replaces the contents of
NChoseK()with a call to math/big'sBinomial(). It does some conversions so that no changes need to be made in how NChoseK is called.Why?
Why make this change?
What this doesn't do
Possible objections
Although I do acknowledge those as legitimate objections, I wouldn't be submitting this PR if I didn't think the benefits outweigh them.