Place n indistinguishable items into k distinguishable boxes

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On Feb 27, 9:03 pm, Michael Robertson <mcrobert... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Roy Smith wrote the following on 02/27/2008 06:56 PM:
>
> > What course is this homework problem for?
>
> None.  I assume you have an answer to this *trivial* problem...
>
> It's actually a very general question relating to a very specific
> problem I am working on.  Normally, I do not reply to such snide
> remarks, but I'd like to note that this post would never have been made
> if there *were* a Python package which provided these common
> combinatorial methods.

Sounds fun.  Do I have class in the morning?