So, a friend of mine was bored one day and came up with this problem on his own (it related closely to some personal circumstances of his own). It intrigued me, but I have not been able to solve it.

Hypergeometric functions occupy a central role in mathematical analysis by encapsulating a diverse class of series that extend many classical functions. Equally, identities involving harmonic numbers ...

N is the population size for a hypergeometric distribution. In terms of acceptance sampling, N is the lot size. K is the number of items in the category of interest in the population. In terms of ...