Factorial bookkeeping for the collapse induction #
This file isolates equation (5.47) in the proof of Proposition 5.9. The
paper distinguishes the case of one skipped edge, where the collapsed branch
is inserted into W', from the case of at least two skipped edges.
Removing k factors from the first factorial costs at most a^k.
The sharper intermediate factor is a.descFactorial k; the remaining two
factorials form a binomial coefficient.