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An inequality involving binomial coefficients and the powers of two
I came across the following inequality, which should hold for any integer $k\geq 1$:
$$\sum_{j=0}^{k-1}\frac{(-1)^{j}2^{k-1-j}\binom{k}{j}(k-j)}{2k+1-j}\leq
\frac{1}{3}.$$
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Estimating when does a certain binomial sum exceed an upper bound
Given a fixed integer $n > 0$ and $0 \le m \le n$ let us define the numbers
$$f_{n,m} = \sum_{i=\lfloor m/2 \rfloor}^m {n-2i \choose n - m -i}{i+1 \choose m - i +1}.$$
For example $f_{n,0} = 1,f_{...