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Unique ways to keep N balls into K Boxes?
This question may be sound stupid, but we really cant figure it out. We have 3 rocks and 6 boxes. All the rocks have to be in the boxes. The rocks can be all in one box or spread out.
How many unique combinations can we possible have?
I made a spreadsheet of this https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjBAKweB5syRdDFVeE5qNVJqT3F5RE9heERvYVBWdnc&hl=en_US
i came up with 53. I am missing some? please let me know.
The question to this problem is whats the equation. How do we come up with this number without the spreadsheet so i can apply it to a another set of questions.