Problem 42781. How many ways to write a number

Created by Pritom Kumar Mondal

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Anupam Agarwal on 22 Mar 2016

please correct the reference solution to com(x,k) instead of com(x)

Jihye Sofia Seo on 12 Feb 2017

Please correct test cases, the function should have 2 arguments.

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