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---
id: 5900f3a11000cf542c50feb4
challengeType: 5
title: 'Problem 53: Combinatoric selections'
---
## Description
<section id='description'>
There are exactly ten ways of selecting three from five, 12345:
123, 124, 125, 134, 135, 145, 234, 235, 245, and 345
In combinatorics, we use the notation, 5C3 = 10.
In general,
nCr =
n!r!(nr)!
,where r ≤ n, n! = n×(n1)×...×3×2×1, and 0! = 1.
It is not until n = 23, that a value exceeds one-million: 23C10 = 1144066.
How many, not necessarily distinct, values of  nCr, for 1 ≤ n ≤ 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 4626.
testString: assert.strictEqual(combinatoricSelections(1000), 4626, '<code>combinatoricSelections(1000)</code> should return 4626.');
- text: <code>combinatoricSelections(10000)</code> should return 4431.
testString: assert.strictEqual(combinatoricSelections(10000), 4431, '<code>combinatoricSelections(10000)</code> should return 4431.');
- text: <code>combinatoricSelections(100000)</code> should return 4255.
testString: assert.strictEqual(combinatoricSelections(100000), 4255, '<code>combinatoricSelections(100000)</code> should return 4255.');
- text: <code>combinatoricSelections(1000000)</code> should return 4075.
testString: assert.strictEqual(combinatoricSelections(1000000), 4075, '<code>combinatoricSelections(1000000)</code> should return 4075.');
```
</section>
## Challenge Seed
<section id='challengeSeed'>
<div id='js-seed'>
```js
function combinatoricSelections(limit) {
// Good luck!
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>