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- Why Does 0! = 1 ? (Meesterr) 12/8/95
Why does 0! = 1 ?
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- Finding the Limit (George) 1/25/96
I have a question about the limit of a sequence ...
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- Number of Ways to Move (Seaman) 1/30/96
I have a group of squares which together form a larger square. In how many ways can you travel from the upper left corner of the large square to the lower right corner by only going down or to the right?
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- Factorials (Barkin) 11/15/94
One day when I was playing on a calculator, I found that 1 and 0 both have a factorial of 1. Can you explain this?
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- Combinations of Coins (Stewart) 1/28/96
If I had 6 coins in my pocket, how many combinations could I have?
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- Find the Last Eight Digits of a Factorial (Patel) 1/30/96
Find the last eight digits of 69! where 69!=69x68x67........x1
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- Binomial Expansions and Pascal's Triangle (Fama) 7/10/96
What are binomial expansions and where can they be used?
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- Probability of Getting your Hat Back (McMaken) 12/9/95
There are 5 people with 5 hats. The hats are put into a box. What is the probability that each person will get his or her hat?
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- Factorial (Peevey) 4/1/96
What is factorial?
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- 30 hat probability question (Gong) 11/7/94
In a department store there are 30 cubbies of different hats. Each hat has its own assigned cubbie box. However, there was an earthquake...
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- Advanced Probability as Used in a MAGIC (Denis) 2/15/95
A MAGIC deck is composed of numerous subsets of cards that fall into specific categories. A card can be in several categories, but that isn't part of this problem. We would like to know how to calculate the probability of having pulled a card from a subgroup in the deck by the Xth turn, where X increases from 1 to whatever.
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- Probability of Winning a Solitaire Game (Tsjrg) 10/26/95
I am interested in finding out how to figure the probability of winning the solitaire 'clock game'.
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- Strategies for Tests on Sequences (Joel) 7/9/96
I have a problem answering test questions about number sequences.
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- Factorials (Dolphin) 2/3/96
What does 3! mean?
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