Added the justification via counting the number of permutations.
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In combinatorics, the definition usually extends to by setting .
The same for binomial/multinomial coefficients, the numbers and can be zero as it is in Pascal triangle, then one uses . (In fact, there are also the standard conventions when some of the numbers are out of bound when the multinomial coefficients are, in combinatorics, taken to be zero.) Our entry binomial theorem anyway uses the summation where the lower index is allowed to be zero as it should be.
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