Binomial bound
I recently came across an upper bound I hadn’t seen before [1]. Given a binomial coefficient C(r, k), let n = min(k, r − k) and m = r − n. Then for any ε > 0, C(n + m, n) ≤ (1 + ε)n + m / εn. The
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