Fred, when I tried to look at your discussion, https://www.dropbox.com/s/anykne0pd55ehjg/binomial.pdf I got a rude "go away" message Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane@gmail.com On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
See the note I wrote up following a discussion on this list circa 2014 --- https://www.dropbox.com/s/anykne0pd55ehjg/binomial.pdf
[ I did contemplate trying to get this published in the Math. Intelligencer, but retreated in the face of an editor's mysterious antipathy to computer- generated illustrations. ]
WFL
On 7/22/17, Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:
I'm guessing that a similar lapse of conviction ruined Mathematica's Binomial function: Some moron complained about the asymmetry so long after it was implemented that WRI forgot why it's asymmetrical, and accommodated the moron.
For those of us who aren't familiar with all Mathematica's quirks, would you care to say what erroneous symmetry Mma gives to the binomial coefficients?
(My apologies if this was already being discussed in some other thread and I just missed it.)
-- g
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