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---
id: 5900f3a11000cf542c50feb4
challengeType: 5
title: 'Problem 53: Combinatoric selections'
forumTopicId: 302164
---
## Description
<section id='description'>
There are exactly ten ways of selecting three from five, 12345:
<div style='text-align: center;'>123, 124, 125, 134, 135, 145, 234, 235, 245, and 345</div>
In combinatorics, we use the notation, $\displaystyle \binom 5 3 = 10$
In general, $\displaystyle \binom n r = \dfrac{n!}{r!(n-r)!}$, where $r \le n$, $n! = n \times (n-1) \times ... \times 3 \times 2 \times 1$, and $0! = 1$.
It is not until $n = 23$, that a value exceeds one-million: $\displaystyle \binom {23} {10} = 1144066$.
How many, not necessarily distinct, values of  $\displaystyle \binom n r$ for $1 \le n \le 100$, are greater than one-million?
</section>
## Instructions
<section id='instructions'>
</section>
## Tests
<section id='tests'>
```yml
tests:
- text: <code>combinatoricSelections(1000)</code> should return a number.
testString: assert(typeof combinatoricSelections(1000) === 'number');
- text: <code>combinatoricSelections(1000)</code> should return 4626.
testString: assert.strictEqual(combinatoricSelections(1000), 4626);
- text: <code>combinatoricSelections(10000)</code> should return 4431.
testString: assert.strictEqual(combinatoricSelections(10000), 4431);
- text: <code>combinatoricSelections(100000)</code> should return 4255.
testString: assert.strictEqual(combinatoricSelections(100000), 4255);
- text: <code>combinatoricSelections(1000000)</code> should return 4075.
testString: assert.strictEqual(combinatoricSelections(1000000), 4075);
```
</section>
## Challenge Seed
<section id='challengeSeed'>
<div id='js-seed'>
```js
function combinatoricSelections(limit) {
return 1;
}
combinatoricSelections(1000000);
```
</div>
</section>
## Solution
<section id='solution'>
```js
function combinatoricSelections(limit) {
const factorial = n =>
Array.apply(null, { length: n })
.map((_, i) => i + 1)
.reduce((p, c) => p * c, 1);
let result = 0;
const nMax = 100;
for (let n = 1; n <= nMax; n++) {
for (let r = 0; r <= n; r++) {
if (factorial(n) / (factorial(r) * factorial(n - r)) >= limit)
result++;
}
}
return result;
}
```
</section>