Coefficients of Generating Functions This problem is from Stanley's Enumerative Combinatorics: Volume 1.  page 115 here for those desirous of context (prettier conTeXt).
Anyway, it asks for fixed $j,k\in \mathbb{Z}$ to show that $$\sum_{n\ge 0}{(2n-j-k)!x^n\over (n-j)!(n-k)!(n-j-k)!n!}=\sum_{n\ge 0}{x^n\over n!(n-j)!} \sum_{n\ge 0}{x^n\over n!(n-k)!}$$
It also addends that "Any term with $(-r)$ in the denominator, where $r\gt 0$, is set equal to 0."
So for the LHS I have deduced the following seemingly useless fact that the coefficient of $x^n$ is $${1\over2} {4n-2j-2k)\choose (n-j),(n-k),(n-j-k),n}$$ where we have this denoting the usual multi-nomial coefficient.  I've messed around with the usual rules for multiplying generating functions on the RHS but I still can't seem to get anywhere.  I'm sufficiently embarrassed, but I turn to you for help anywho.
 A: We have
$$\sum_{n \geq 0}{\frac{x^n}{n!(n-j)!}}\sum_{n \geq 0}{\frac{x^n}{n!(n-k)!}}=\sum_{n \geq 0}{\left(\sum_{i=0}^{n}{\frac{1}{i!(i-j)!}\frac{1}{(n-i)!((n-i)-k)!}}\right)x^n}$$
\begin{align}
\sum_{i=0}^{n}{\frac{1}{i!(i-j)!}\frac{1}{(n-i)!((n-i)-k)!}}& =\frac{1}{n!(n-j-k)!}\sum_{i=0}^{n}{\binom{n}{i}\binom{n-j-k}{n-i-k}} \\
& =\frac{1}{n!(n-j-k)!}\binom{2n-j-k}{n-k} \\
& =\frac{(2n-j-k)!}{(n-j)!(n-k)!(n-j-k)!n!}
\end{align}
Substituting the second equation into the first one gives the desired identity.
Edit: $\sum_{i=0}^{n}{\binom{n}{i}\binom{n-j-k}{n-i-k}}=\binom{2n-j-k}{n-k}$ is a standard identity which can be easily proved with the following combinatorial argument:
The RHS counts the number of  ways to choose $n-k$ objects from $2n-j-k$ objects. We now count this in a different way. We choose $i$ objects from the 1st $n$ objects, and $n-i-k$ objects from the other $n-j-k$ objects. Clearly we must have $0 \leq i \leq n$. Summing over $i$ gives the LHS, thus proving the identity.
