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So He Was Off By a Couple

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Tim Kawakami wrote: “There are a thousand ways to get to a 37-11 record, second-best in the league at the All-Star break, and the Lakers took about the strangest one.”

Actually, as you will no doubt hear from a thousand sports-loving math nerds, there are 22,595,200,368 ways--the technical term is the “binomial coefficient 48 choose 11.”

DR. LEN ASIMOW

University of St. Louis

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