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Old Nov 11, 2006, 11:11 PM
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how many different combination of 13 objects can you have?

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Old Nov 12, 2006, 10:41 PM   #2  
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Okay so visualise 1 object, you can have only one combination, obviously.
For two objects, you can have 2 combinations, either one way round or the other.
For three objects, you have 6 combinations, for each piece you start with, there are 2 combinations.
For four objects, there are 24 combinations, for each starting object, there are 6 combinations (as there are 3 other objects), so total = 4x6

you can continue this logic as far as you want, as long as all the objects are unique. The answer for n objects is 1x2x3x4........xn.

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13! (or 13 factorial) In other words, 13*12*11*10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1
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