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Old 07-17-2012, 03:26 AM   PM User | #2
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How similar this is to something I am working with/on! This is a problem in combinatorics, to give it a mathematical name. You have 5 distinct items, they can be ordered in 120 ways, you only want them ordered in 20 particular ways, quite interesting.
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