Proving optimized function is still correct

[Peter Hansen]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> 
> <salvasan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I gave a colleague of mine a Python function to optimise:
> 
> Responding would have been easier if you had given a succinct
> description of what your function computes:  the number of ways of
> distributing n indistinguishable items among m labelled bins, with
> bins possibly left empty, and where 'labelled' means that each
> permutation among bins is counted separately.

Sounded like another class assignment to me...

(Am I becoming paranoid? :)
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