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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.