Stars and bars (combinatorics)
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In combinatorics, stars and bars (also called sticks and stones, balls and bars, and dots and dividers) is a graphical aid for deriving certain combinatorial theorems. It can be used to solve a variety of counting problems, such as how many ways there are to put n indistinguishable balls into k distinguishable bins. The solution to this particular problem is given by the binomial coefficient