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Permutation and combination using python

How can we count the no. Of permutations possible ?

28th Jun 2019, 4:48 PM
Muskaan
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from itertools import permutations print(len(list(permutations('abcde'))))
28th Jun 2019, 5:58 PM
Anna
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The length of permutation of a number is equal to the factorial of the number of elements. For example "abc" has 3 elements, the factorial number of 3 is 6 (3*2*1) so it has 6 possible permutations: ("abc","acb","bac","bca","cba","cab")
28th Jun 2019, 5:01 PM
Mo Hani
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The fectorial number 3 is 6 (3*2*1)so it has 6 possible permutations: ("NDC","NCD","DCN","DNC", "CND","CDN")
18th Sep 2019, 4:21 PM
Shailesh Changani