New proofs of Melzak's identity

2016/03/22 by Abel, Ulrich, Gould, Henry W., Quaintance, Jocelyn
#05A19 #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1603.07006

Abstract

In their recent book on combinatorial identities, Quaintance and Gould devoted one chapter to Melzak's identity. We give new proofs for this identity and its generalization.

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