A brief introduction to generating functions

What is a generating function? Why do we use them? A very brief introduction to generating functions.

Chapters
0:00 - Think about probability generating function as a trick to store probabilities
1:06 - How to write a probability generating function
1:57 - Mathematical operations to retrieve information from a generating function
3:22 - Power of generating functions
5:39 - Candy counting example

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