Edwina Chappell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu: >Permutations versus Combinations. >Easy ways to understand the concepts and distinguish when to use?
Does arrangement matter? If yes, permutation; if no, combination. I don't know any useful way to make it more complicated. :-) -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA http://oakroadsystems.com My reply address is correct as is. The courtesy of providing a correct reply address is more important to me than time spent deleting spam. ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================