Improved Combinations with the BigInteger Data Type: Listing 1.

Structure of the Combinatorics program.

using System;
using System.Numerics;
namespace Combinatorics
{
  class CombinatoricsProgram
  {
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
      Console.WriteLine("\nBegin combinations with C# BigInteger demo\n");
      // calling code here
      Console.WriteLine("\nEnd demo\n");
      Console.ReadLine();
    }
  }

  public class Combination
  {
    private int n;
    private int k;
    private int[] data;

    public Combination(int n, int k) { ... }
    public override string ToString() { ... }
    public Combination Successor() { ... }
    public static BigInteger Choose(int n, int k) { ... }
    public Combination Element(BigInteger m) { ... }
    private static int LargestV(int a, int b, BigInteger x) { ... }
    public string[] ApplyTo(string[] a) { ... }
  } // class Combination
} // ns

About the Author

Dr. James McCaffrey directs the data science and research efforts at Quaetrix, a data analytics company located near Redmond, Washington. Before joining Quaetrix, James was a senior research engineer at Microsoft. James can be reached at [email protected].

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