Integer composition in exactly $T$ parts with maximum addend constraint.

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In how many ways an integer $N$ can be partitioned into exactly $T$ parts such that

$T = \lfloor N/K \rfloor + 1$

$N = A_1 + A_2 + \cdots+ A_T$ where order matters

$0 \lt A_i \leq K$

$ N \bmod K \neq 0 $

I mean I have a recursive formula

$F(N, K) = \sum_{i=1}^k F(N-i, K - 1)$ if $K > 1$

$F(N, 1) = 1$ for $N > 0$ and $ N \leq K$

$F(N, K)$ is counting number of ways in which this can be done. Can this be computationally improved?

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I think that given your recursion the orders of the $A_i$ matter.

Notice $N=TK-K$.

If we let $B_j=K-A_j$ then we just want to count the partitions of $K$ into $T$ parts, this is just $\binom{K+T-1}{T-1}$