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English:
The letters of MISSISSIPPI can be rearranged in 34650 different ways. Here we use the
Rule of product
applied to the binomial theorem, beginning with 11-choose-4 to count the possible locations of the four
I
s. Note that for the three
S
s we used the fact that 0!=1.
A version less biased towards the English language "spells" acetic acid (CHHHCOOH) at
file:Multinomial theorem CH3COOH.svg
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| Author | Guy vandegrift |
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