How many ways are there of filling the bin. The ways involving non-bin parts of the histogram are a constant factor. The bin is filled by a selection from the sampling events. Any five of the sampcount events may be involved in filling the bin. The sampcount events happen always in the same order, so I don't think we want permutations of them ... I'm guessing that this is a combinations situation. Where using the concept of combinations will give the proportional number of samplings that fill the bin to that height.