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prprprpony opened this issue Oct 10, 2016 · 1 comment
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Use \binom instead of C to denote Binomial coefficients #83

prprprpony opened this issue Oct 10, 2016 · 1 comment

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Alternative notations include $C(n, k), nC_k, ^nC_k, C^k_n, C^n_k, C{n,k}$ in all of which the C stands for combinations or choices. -from Binomial coefficient - Wikipedia

As you can see, the C notation varied from country to country.
So using it to denote Binomial coefficients may be confusing to readers from different backgrounds.
In contrast, there is only one representation of the \binom notation, which is friendlier.
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Thanks for pointing at this. I completely agree... well... so if you feel an inclination, you are welcome to propose changes to any of the articles in form of a pull-request... :)

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Fix binomial coefficients notation per issue #83 (#113)
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