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On the Summation of a Compound Series, and its application to a Problem in Probabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

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The series proposed for summation is

In which series each line or term is the product of two factorials, the first consisting of p, the last of q factors of successive numbers. And in each successive term the factors of the first factorial are diminished each by unity, and the factors of the last increased.

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Proceedings 1852-53
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 3 , 1857 , pp. 173 - 175
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1857

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