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Summary
DescriptionCombinations bins versus strings.svg
English: Assigning {1,3,4} to the "C" bin and {2,4} to the "R" bin corresponds to choosing a permutation of these letters that represents the stringCRCCR. Here it is understood that The integers 1-5 are the distinguishable objects, while the three "C"s are identical, as are the two "R"s.
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Two imortant interpretations of 5-choose-3 are: Placing the integers (1-5) in one of two "bins", versus creating strings using three "C"s and two "R"s.