// Copyright 2015 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package mathx import "math" const smallFactLimit = 20 // 20! => 62 bits var smallFact [smallFactLimit + 1]int64 func init() { smallFact[0] = 1 fact := int64(1) for n := int64(1); n <= smallFactLimit; n++ { fact *= n smallFact[n] = fact } } // Choose returns the binomial coefficient of n and k. func Choose(n, k int) float64 { if k == 0 || k == n { return 1 } if k < 0 || n < k { return 0 } if n <= smallFactLimit { // Implies k <= smallFactLimit // It's faster to do several integer multiplications // than it is to do an extra integer division. // Remarkably, this is also faster than pre-computing // Pascal's triangle (presumably because this is very // cache efficient). numer := int64(1) for n1 := int64(n - (k - 1)); n1 <= int64(n); n1++ { numer *= n1 } denom := smallFact[k] return float64(numer / denom) } return math.Exp(lchoose(n, k)) } // Lchoose returns math.Log(Choose(n, k)). func Lchoose(n, k int) float64 { if k == 0 || k == n { return 0 } if k < 0 || n < k { return math.NaN() } return lchoose(n, k) } func lchoose(n, k int) float64 { a, _ := math.Lgamma(float64(n + 1)) b, _ := math.Lgamma(float64(k + 1)) c, _ := math.Lgamma(float64(n - k + 1)) return a - b - c }