Project Euler task 53

There are exactly ten ways of selecting three from five, 12345:

123, 124, 125, 134, 135, 145, 234, 235, 245, and 345

In combinatorics, we use the notation, 5C3 = 10.

In general,

nCr =
n!
r!(n−r)!
,where r ≤ n, n! = n×(n−1)×...×3×2×1, and 0! = 1.

It is not until n = 23, that a value exceeds one-million: 23C10 = 1144066.

How many, not necessarily distinct, values of nCr, for 1 ≤ n ≤ 100, are greater than one-million?


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k = 0;
For[i = 1, i <= 100, i++,
For[j = 1, j < i, j++,
If[Binomial[i, j] > 1000000,
k++
]
]
]
k

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