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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] book chapters
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:27:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200306280227.h5S2RD723287@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:10:48 EDT." <200306280210.h5S2Am723171@augusta.math.psu.edu>

> There are 2^50000 - 1 such combinations (assuming one ignores the group
> with no one in it); a lot more than 50000!.

Watch which way you write your numbers, or more importantly when you
actually hit the Post button (hopefully not while you're still editting);
50000! is obviously a lot more than 2^50000 - 1 (though the latter is
the number of groups we're talking about).

	- Dan C.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-28  2:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-27  9:47 pac
2003-06-27 10:22 ` matt
2003-06-27 22:08 ` Joel Salomon
2003-06-27 22:12   ` Geoff Collyer, geoff
2003-06-27 23:39     ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-28  1:03     ` Scott Schwartz
2003-06-28  2:10       ` Dan Cross
2003-06-28  2:27         ` Dan Cross [this message]
2003-06-29 17:55     ` Jack Johnson
2003-06-30 11:17       ` matt
2003-06-30 13:43         ` ron minnich
2003-06-30 14:02           ` matt
2003-06-30 16:56           ` Jack Johnson
2003-06-30 17:16             ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-30 17:19               ` ron minnich
2003-06-30 17:24                 ` ron minnich
2003-06-30 17:29                   ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-30 18:40             ` rog
2003-06-30 23:16               ` Kenji Arisawa
2003-06-30 23:24                 ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-01  1:44                 ` David Presotto
2003-07-01 11:27                   ` Kenji Arisawa
2003-07-01 11:32                     ` David Presotto
2003-07-01  9:51             ` matt
2003-06-27 22:36   ` William Ahern
2003-06-27 22:28 Joel Salomon
2003-06-27 22:26 ` Geoff Collyer, geoff
2003-06-27 23:43 ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-27 23:46   ` Geoff Collyer, geoff
2003-06-28  0:53     ` Dennis Ritchie
2003-06-28 17:44 A. Baker
2003-06-29  4:38 ` Dennis Ritchie
2003-06-30 18:17 Richard C Bilson
2003-07-01 17:48 A. Baker
2003-07-02  0:27 ` Dennis Ritchie

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