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Factorials, Permutations and Combinations

n! is defined to be tex2html_wrap_inline1119 .

The number of ways of choosing a subset of size k from a subset of size n of different elements is

displaymath1113

The number of ways of choosing and then permuting a subset of size k from a subset of size n of different elements is

displaymath1114



Carl Lee
Wed Apr 21 08:17:28 EDT 1999