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Re: How to do Combinations/Permutations in BlueJ

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Subject Re: How to do Combinations/Permutations in BlueJ
Date 2012-11-07 23:03 -0800
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On 11/7/2012 8:53 PM, lebaz95@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 8:28:19 PM UTC-6, leb...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>> I would like to create a program that will do problems like
>> (xa+yb)^z. But I would need to do things like (5!/3!(5-3)!) How
>> would I get this done?
>
> rslt = 1; for(i = e; i > 0; i --) { rslt *= i; }
>
> I asked my brother and he helped me. e in this program is a user
> input so you may replace it as you see fit.


In the real world, people call this a factorial.  Here's a fun article 
on the subject:

<http://chaosinmotion.com/blog/?p=622>

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How to do Combinations/Permutations in BlueJ lebaz95@gmail.com - 2012-11-07 18:28 -0800
  Re: How to do Combinations/Permutations in BlueJ lebaz95@gmail.com - 2012-11-07 20:53 -0800
    Re: How to do Combinations/Permutations in BlueJ markspace <-@.> - 2012-11-07 23:03 -0800
      Re: How to do Combinations/Permutations in BlueJ Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-11-08 11:16 -0800
    Re: How to do Combinations/Permutations in BlueJ Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-11-08 09:10 -0500
      Re: How to do Combinations/Permutations in BlueJ Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-11-08 10:48 -0500
        Re: How to do Combinations/Permutations in BlueJ Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-11-08 13:18 -0500
          Re: How to do Combinations/Permutations in BlueJ Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-11-08 23:14 -0500
  Re: How to do Combinations/Permutations in BlueJ Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-08 15:52 -0500

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