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Generating functions that track some geometrical features of combinations with repetition are developed; namely, the semiperimeter, inner site-perimeter, and outer site-perimeter, each of whose meanings depends on the interpretation of the combination as a bargraph.The paper has three theorems, which respectively give the total number for each of these statistics based on separate generating functions tracking these statistics.
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