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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] book chapters
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:10:48 EDT."
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:27:13 -0400
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> 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.