Dwayne Reid wrote:

>At 06:00 AM 4/6/2006, Olin Lathrop wrote:
>  
>
>>David VanHorn wrote:
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>>>How many different ways are there to arrainge 16 things?
>>>      
>>>
>>Imagine what you would do to actually go thru all possible combinations.
>>You grab the first thing, which you can put in 16 different places.  The
>>next thing can only go in 15 places, then next in 14, etc.  Since this
>>operation comes up a lot, especially in statistics, it is given the special
>>name "factorial", usually written with "!".  So the answer to your problem
>>is:
>>
>>  16 factorial = 16! = about 2.09e13
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>>
>
>One of the best explanations I've ever seen.  You'd probably make a 
>great teacher, Olin.
>
>dwayne
>
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>
I agree, Dwayne. Olin  has a real gift for teaching, and a way with words.

--Bob

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