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Some Properties of Compositions and their Application to the Ballot Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

S. G. Mohanty
S. G. Mohanty*
Affiliation:
State University of New York at Buffalo and McMaster University
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This paper is a continuation of two papers [4], [5] and brings out the solution of the ballot problem in its general form.

In [5], Narayana has considered a generalised occupancy problem which can be viewed as a problem in compositions of integers. In what follows, we use the definitions of [6].

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , April 1965 , pp. 359 - 372
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1965

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