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by animeshchouhan 619 days ago
Thank you so much for the constructive feedback!

> This presentation seems bizarre...

My thought process was setting the context of how the problem would be solved by pen/paper and implementing a recursive solution if you didn't know binomial theorem beforehand. It is trivial to implement coeff using math.comb so skipped that part.

> Applying computational brute force...

That's the fun part at least for me, modeling problems not meant to be solved programmatically and solving them anyways.

> Finally: the JEE is specific to India...

Yeah true that, should have given a better context

Actually, I am just starting with writing blogs, so trying various avenues. Thanks again for the feedback. Will work on improvements.

1 comments

Good luck!

I'm probably not at all in your intended audience, so don't take it too seriously. But I do think it's a good idea to "close the loop" when you're presenting ideas around a central theme (here, combinatorics). There's a lot more you could add from here, too, branching off into why `math.comb` gives the right answer. That is, if you present a way to do something without the binomial theorem, but also talk about how the binomial theorem is relevant and would allow solving the problem, the natural completion is to... prove the theorem :) (Or at least, cite someone else's proof.)