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You have pearl of 3 types.

Type 1 pearl can be of color from 1 to X.

Type 2 pearl can be of color from X+1 to X+Y

Type 3 pearl can be of color from X+Y+1 to X+Y+Z.

You have unlimited supply of pearls of each type and each color. You want to build some pearl chain. But you have 2 more additional constraints.

The total number of Type 1 and Type 3 pearls will be exactly A.

The total number of Type 2 and Type 3 pearls will be exactly B.

Given A, B, X, Y and Z (All $\le N$) calculate how many different pearl chains are possible. 2 chains are different if they have different length or there is a position in which they have different colored pearl.

The answer should be closed form, or computable in $O(\log(N))$ time.

Solution Idea:

$$\sum_{t_3=0}^{\min(A,B)}\frac{(A+B-t_3)!}{(A-t_3)!(B-t_3)!t_3!}X^{A-t_3}Y^{B-t_3}Z^{t_3}$$

At which point we were stuck. What kind of combinatoric quantity is this? It's some type of Stirling or Euler numbers? Thanks!

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