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<b>Message ID:</b> 362 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Tue Aug 17 11:44:53 BST 1999 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> Martin Pikas <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Combinations for that fishing pole = irrelevant math stuff <br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-966077542"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;   Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:59:49 GMT<br/>
&gt;   From: &quot;Xillitil of Povar&quot; &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:xillitil@...">xillitil@...</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt;Subject: Re: Combinations for that fishing pole = irrelevant math stuff<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;yeh, there is probably no practical use for the numbers, but it&#39;s been a<br/>
&gt;while since my brain got any exercise...and being realistic is no fun :)<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;realized that i forgot order is not important again...<br/>
&gt;current guess is 13^8/8!...~20231<br/>
&gt;or 13^4/4!=~1120 for 4 slots used...<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;hmmm...that seems to be not quite right either...dunno...gonna have to go<br/>
&gt;find some old textbooks or something...<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Xillitil/Povar<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I think the way you came up with that formula is good. (It must be, because<br/>
it was what I came up with at first, lol)<br/>
Problem is it is wrong.<br/>
<br/>
Suppose we have 13 types of items in 100 slots.<br/>
<br/>
That gives us 13^100/100! which is less than 1. (Can&#39;t be right.)<br/>
<br/>
The other problem I had with it is that it does not produce an integer<br/>
number. What is 0.3 combinations?<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
I wish this was even worth 2 cp...</div>