Noninteger binomial coefficients

[miranda]

how can i calculate the value of C(5,0.5)? @binom function expects integer values for both n and k.

[trubador]

The following piece of code uses the generalized version of the computation of binomial coefficents and should do the trick for you:

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call gbinom(5,0.5) subroutine gbinom(scalar n,scalar k) scalar gbcoef = @exp(@gammalog(n+1)-@gammalog(k+1)-@gammalog(n-k+1)) endsub

[miranda]

great, thanks!!