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Ryan Reich
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Show that this ratio of factorials is always an integer

show the formula always gives an integer

$$\frac{(2m)!(2n)!}{m!n!(m+n)!}$$

I don't remember where I read this problem, but it said this can be proved using a simple counting argument (like observing that $\frac{(3m)!}{m!m!m!}$ is just the number of ways of permuting m identical things of type 1, m of type-2 and m of type-3).

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