Arranging Balls into Boxes
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This Demonstration provides the answers to a variety of questions of the type, In how many ways can balls be placed into boxes? You can vary the number of balls and boxes. Options include distinguishable or indistinguishable balls, distinguishable or indistinguishable boxes, and whether or not empty boxes are permitted.
Contributed by: Marc Brodie (February 2018)
(Wheeling Jesuit University)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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Notation follows Martin's text [1]. In particular, stands for the number of integer partitions of into exactly parts.
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[1] G. E. Martin, Counting: The Art of Enumerative Combinatorics, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2001.
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