Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1148143 | Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference | 2010 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We use the Lindström–Gessel–Viennot Theorem to count nonintersecting lattice paths in a carefully chosen acyclic weighted digraph to give a visual combinatorial proof of Vandermonde's classic determinant.
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Authors
Jennifer J. Quinn,