Stars And Bars (combinatorics)
In the context of combinatorial mathematics, stars and bars is a graphical aid for deriving certain combinatorial theorems. It was popularized by William Feller in his classic book on probability.
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Famous quotes containing the words stars and/or bars:
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out of bars all over Wisconsin.”
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