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Re: LOL
Posted By: Sam, on host 207.180.179.115
Date: Thursday, July 1, 1999, at 15:51:10
In Reply To: Re: LOL posted by Jimmy on Thursday, July 1, 1999, at 13:46:10:

> > Just for the record, there are (exactly) 118,879,488,000 different permutations fifteen options can be arranged into.
>
> Actually, there 1,307,674,368,000 permutations. You forgot to multiply by 11. :)

I sit corrected. 1,307,674,368,000 permutations. On average, a player will happen upon the solution on the 653,837,184,000th attempt, which, assuming one permutation per minute, means that particular puzzle should only take 1243982.5 (or so) years (on average) to solve.

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