An alternative term for a binomial coefficient, in which 
is read as "
choose 
."
R. K. Guy suggested this pronunciation around 1950, when the notations
and 
were commonly used. Leo Moser liked the pronunciation
and he and others spread it around. It got the final seal of approval from Donald
Knuth when he incorporated it into the TeX mathematical typesetting language as 
.
Choose
See also
Ball Picking, Binomial Coefficient, Combination, Multichoose, Multinomial Coefficient, Multiset, Permutation, StringExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
Cite this as:
Weisstein, Eric W. "Choose." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Choose.html