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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 11-4-5 on page II-164 in "Fractions and their generalizations".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3examargin}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{153.0pt}

  % Shorten the vertical size of the example ...
  \AtBeginDocument{%
    \setlength\abovedisplayskip{.1\abovedisplayskip}%
    \setlength\belowdisplayskip{.5\belowdisplayskip}%
  }

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{amsmath}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\begin{equation} \binom{k}{2} 2^{k - 1}
                   + \tbinom{k - 1}{2} 2^{k - 2}
\end{equation}
Text: $ \binom{k}{2} 2^{k - 1}
          + \dbinom{k - 1}{2} 2^{k - 2} $.
\end{document}