Re: How to shuffle/jumble letters of a given word?

[darkestkhan <darkestkhan@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 9:50:03 PM UTC, David Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 03:40:40 -0700 (PDT), darkestkhan
> <darkestkhan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 12:29:57 PM UTC, Austin Obyrne wrote:
> <snip>
> > > There are 10 ways of shuffling 'Hello'
> > > 
> > 
> > Only 10 ways? I know 7 ways to do it, I suspect that there are many more. 
> > And if you meant that there are only "10 possible results of
> > shuffling" then you are way off the target (5! possible shuffles,
> > which is 120)
> > 
> Except if the two 'l' (ell) are indistinguishable then 5!/2!=60.

True. I'm not good at combinatorics - still my point stands, as 60 is still more than 10.