 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 384 pages
...changes may be made in the position of the letters of the alphabet? Ans. 403291461126605635584000000. 3. How long a time will be required for 8 persons...placed before each of the others, and we thus have •", x 4 permutations of 2 out , of 5. If we take 3 at a time, the third thing may be placed as 1st,... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1851 - 342 pages
...several of another, &c. ? m. When any number of different things are given, what is the Rule. for finding how many changes can be made out of them, by taking a given number of the things at a time? ^ xxxvn. COMBINATIONS. In what does Combination consist ? What is this sometimes called ? Can two combinations... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1834 - 340 pages
...the order of the figures in the number 972982792S9 ? PROBLEM Hi. Any number of different things bemg given, to find how many changes can be made out of...by taking a given number of the things at a time. RULE. Take a series "f numbers commencing with the given number of things jnd decreasing by 1, till... | |
 | Horace Mann, Pliny Earle Chase, Phiny Earie Chase - Arithmetic - 1857 - 394 pages
...changes may be made in the position of the letters of the alphabet ? Am. 403291461126605635584000()00. 3. How long a time will be required for 8 persons...others, and we thus have 5x4 permutations of 2 out 272 PERMUTATION AND COMBINATION. [ART. XVH. of 6. If we take 3 at a time, the third thing may be placed... | |
 | Horace Mann, Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1857 - 388 pages
...changes may be made in the position of the letters of the alphabet ? Ans. 403291461126605635584000000. 3. How long a time will be required for 8 persons...by taking a given number of the things at a time. of 5. If we take 8 at a time, the third thing may be placed as 1st, 2d, and 3d, in each of these permutations,... | |
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Any number of different things being given, to find how many changes can be made out of them, by taking any given number of quantities at a time. RULE. 
