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Hypergeometric function

Do you know what a function is? It's like a machine that takes in a number and gives you a new number as a result.

Now imagine a special kind of function called a hypergeometric function. It's a bit like a magical machine that can help us solve special math problems.

Let's say we have a bag of marbles with different colors. We want to know the probability of getting a certain number of red marbles when we take out a certain number of marbles from the bag. This is where the hypergeometric function comes in!

We can put in the number of red marbles in the bag, the number of marbles in total, and the number of marbles we want to take out. Then the hypergeometric function will give us the probability of getting the exact number of red marbles we want.

It's like a special calculator that does just this specific kind of math problem. Pretty cool, right?