in reply to Re^3: Pattern enumeration. (KISS)
in thread Pattern enumeration.

So, I think that once I've calculated the total number of legal arrangements, I divide by 720 to determine the number of patterns?

A 3x3 with 4 symbols has 95,340178,068 solutions, a number that's not even divisible by 4!. This is because some solutions don't use all the available symbols.

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Re^5: Pattern enumeration. (KISS)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 27, 2010 at 20:39 UTC

    Good point!