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Derivation of a New Formula for the Number of Minimal Lattice Paths From (0,0) to (km,kn) Having Just t Contacts with the Line my=nx and Having No Points Above This Line; and a Proof of Grossman's Formula for the Number of Paths Which May Touch But Do Not Rise Above This Line

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

M. T. L. Bizley
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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 80 , Issue 1 , June 1954 , pp. 55 - 62
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1954

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