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[Solved] Combination

Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 4:55 pm
by domesticatedzebra
I'm sure most of the people on this forum are familiar with the combination symbol. It consists of two numbers in parentheses, with the top number representing the set size and the bottom number representing the subgroup size:

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Is there any way to do that in OpenOffice Math? For now, I'm just using the alternate notation, S C k.

Re: Combination

Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 5:57 pm
by gerard24
May be

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left ( binom {S} {k} right ) 

Re: Combination

Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 6:07 pm
by Daiwe01
Or maybe

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left ( stack{S #k} right )

Re: Combination

Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 7:56 pm
by domesticatedzebra
Thanks for the suggestions.
I tried them in Math, and they both work.