RosettaCodeData/Task/Evaluate-binomial-coefficients/C/evaluate-binomial-coefficients.c
2023-07-01 13:44:08 -04:00

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C

#include <stdio.h>
#include <limits.h>
/* We go to some effort to handle overflow situations */
static unsigned long gcd_ui(unsigned long x, unsigned long y) {
unsigned long t;
if (y < x) { t = x; x = y; y = t; }
while (y > 0) {
t = y; y = x % y; x = t; /* y1 <- x0 % y0 ; x1 <- y0 */
}
return x;
}
unsigned long binomial(unsigned long n, unsigned long k) {
unsigned long d, g, r = 1;
if (k == 0) return 1;
if (k == 1) return n;
if (k >= n) return (k == n);
if (k > n/2) k = n-k;
for (d = 1; d <= k; d++) {
if (r >= ULONG_MAX/n) { /* Possible overflow */
unsigned long nr, dr; /* reduced numerator / denominator */
g = gcd_ui(n, d); nr = n/g; dr = d/g;
g = gcd_ui(r, dr); r = r/g; dr = dr/g;
if (r >= ULONG_MAX/nr) return 0; /* Unavoidable overflow */
r *= nr;
r /= dr;
n--;
} else {
r *= n--;
r /= d;
}
}
return r;
}
int main() {
printf("%lu\n", binomial(5, 3));
printf("%lu\n", binomial(40, 19));
printf("%lu\n", binomial(67, 31));
return 0;
}