Find the number of solutions in positive integers to the equation
Solution
Let be a solution. Then is just some increasing sequence of positive integers. Considering the as multiplicities, the 's and 's uniquely determine a partition of 7. Likewise, we can determine 's and 's from any partition of 7, so the number of solutions is .
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