#8651: binomial(n,k) evaluates to zero when 0 is subsituted for k
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   Reporter:  rhinton    |       Owner:  burcin            
       Type:  defect     |      Status:  new               
   Priority:  major      |   Milestone:  sage-4.4          
  Component:  symbolics  |    Keywords:  symbolic, binomial
     Author:             |    Upstream:  N/A               
   Reviewer:             |      Merged:                    
Work_issues:             |  
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 We all know binomial(n,0) should be 1.  But we're not getting that answer
 in the following case.
 {{{
 sage: var('n, k')
 (n, k)
 sage: binomial(n, 0)  # this is OK
 1
 sage: binomial(n, k).subs(k=0)  # this is a problem!
 0
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8651>
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