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A generating function is a way of encoding an infinite sequence of numbers by treating them as the coefficients of a formal power series. Tag questions involving generating functions in this.

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How to extract the diagonal from a bivariate generating function

Let $ F(s,t)= \sum_{i,j} f(i,j) s^i t^j$, which is a bivariate generating funcion of the number $f(i,j)$ for some enumeration problem. Sometimes we know about $F(s,t)$, but what we really need is the …
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