Excel - Microsoft Excel Multinomial Function

Description

The Excel MULTINOMIAL function returns the ratio of the factorial of a sum of supplied values to the product of factorials of those values. 

where the supplied number arguments are the integer values (or ranges of cells containing integer values) for which you want to calculate the multinomial. If any of the supplied values are decimals, these are truncated to integers. 

Note that, in Excel 2007 and Excel 2010, you can supply up to 255 values to the Multinomial function, but in Excel 2003, you can only supply up to 29 values. 

Multinomial Function Example

Cell B1 of the spreadsheet below shows an the Excel Multinomial Function, used to calculate the multinomial of the values 3, 1, 2 and 5, in column A of the spreadsheet. 

The above example shows that the multinomial of the values 3, 1, 2 and 5 is 27,720. 

Multinomial Function Errors

If you get an error from the Excel Multinomial Function, this is likely to be one of the following: 

Common Errors