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"yang " <macmaster_egypt@yahoogroups.com> wrote in message <i1iafp$6v7$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi,
>
> \mathop  {\sum {...\sum }}\limits_{z_r \in {Q_{2}^{*}}} such that
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> Q_{2}^{*}=\{(z_1,...,z_r):z_{j}=0,1,\sum_{j=1}^{r}z_{j}=\ell\}, where \ell = 0, 1, . . . , r.
>
> For example. If r=3, \ell=1; then we are looking for triples with elements 0's or 1's and sum to 1 i.e. Q_{2}^{*}=\{(0,0,1),(0,1,0),(1,0,0)\}. So we would like to sum over theses z_r's.
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If I interpret your question correctly, for r = 5 and ell = 3, you first want all sequences of five 0's or 1's whose sum is 3:

0 0 1 1 1
0 1 0 1 1
0 1 1 0 1
0 1 1 1 0
1 0 0 1 1
1 0 1 0 1
1 0 1 1 0
1 1 0 0 1
1 1 0 1 0
1 1 1 0 0

Next you want the sum of each of these columns.  Is that right?

You don't need matlab for that trivial problem.  The answer is always

(r-1)!/(ell-1)!/(r-ell)!

for each column.  In the above case this is 4!/2!/2! = 6 which is clearly correct.

Or, if you want the sum over all elements of all sequences, it would be

r!/(ell-1)!/(r-ell)!

Roger Stafford