in reply to Re: Wordfeud racks
in thread Wordfeud racks

How did you get the number? Combinations 
$ echo $(echo {2..100} | sed 's/ /*/g') \
       / $(echo {2..7} | sed 's= =/=g') \
       / $(echo {2..93} | sed 's= =/=g') | bc
16007560800

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Also confirmed at http://www.mathsisfun.com/combinatorics/combinations-permutations-calculator.html and http://easycalculation.com/statistics/permutation-combination.php.

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Re^3: Wordfeud racks
by RichardK (Parson) on Jul 30, 2013 at 17:29 UTC

    Sorry, I meant permutations, so there a N!/(N-K)! ways to select K tiles from a bag of N.

    Or for 7 of 100 tiles = 100*99*98*97*96*95*94 permutations.

    I think it will be easier to calculate the probabilities of the different combinations rather than count them, but it's still going to be a fair amount of work.

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