Combinatoric selections
Author: Jonathan Scott Duff
https://projecteuler.net/problem=53
There are exactly ten ways of selecting three from five, 12345:
123, 124, 125, 134, 135, 145, 234, 235, 245, and 345
In combinatorics, we use the notation, ⁵C₃ = 10.
In general,
ⁿCᵣ = n! / r!(n−r)! ,where r ≤ n, n! = n×(n−1)×...×3×2×1, and 0! = 1.
It is not until n = 23, that a value exceeds one-million: ²³C₁₀ = 1144066.
How many, not necessarily distinct, values of ⁿCᵣ, for 1 ≤ n ≤ 100, are greater than one-million?
Source code: prob053-duff.pl
use v6; # brute force sub postfix:<!>($n) { return [*] 1..$n } sub infix:<C>($n,$r) { $n! / ($r! * ($n-$r)!); } my $count = 0; for 1..100 -> $n { for 1..$n -> $r { $count++ if $n C $r > 1_000_000; } } say $count;