From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.68.93.132 with SMTP id cu4mr20217257pbb.5.1439220016934; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 08:20:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.36.170 with SMTP id p39mr216656qgp.28.1439220015677; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 08:20:15 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!pg9no8396186igb.0!news-out.google.com!78ni9128qge.1!nntp.google.com!69no4824793qgl.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 08:20:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=178.212.31.133; posting-account=nuF4hQoAAADjc2KKS1rOkzxWWEmaDrvx NNTP-Posting-Host: 178.212.31.133 References: <24d183ce-77b6-4fe1-a95e-0ff5ef72c7bd@googlegroups.com> <03b78b5c-d263-4398-97b5-e613c92cb07d@googlegroups.com> <1f55d283-1690-4503-a31d-730a08a633ef@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4798b3bd-c1ec-4778-bbf2-63b78589b723@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: How to shuffle/jumble letters of a given word? From: darkestkhan Injection-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:20:15 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:27408 Date: 2015-08-10T08:20:15-07:00 List-Id: 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 > wrote: > > > On Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 12:29:57 PM UTC, Austin Obyrne wrote: > > > > 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.