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(Where combinations appear)
Combinations appear everywhere: lottery odds, poker hands, committee selections, and experiment designs.
In computer science: generating test cases, selecting features for machine learning, network routing, and database query plans.
Any time you need to choose k items from n options without caring about order, combinations give you the count.
