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Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough

Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Date 2016-05-17 04:55 -0700
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Subject Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough
From Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com>

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On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 6:49:48 AM UTC-4, Duncan Idaho wrote:
> I have a set of characters S of cardinality C
> example
> if S = {a..z, 0..9, A..Z} then C = er, um  ..,62.
> 
> For any given result string X, X need not be a set.
> 
> eg if L = 8 then
> "abcdefgh", "AAAAAAAA", "AABBCCDD" are all valid values for X
> 
> how many strings of length L are possible from S

If a..z + 0..9 + A..Z are valid characters for each position of a string, that's 62 possible characters.  The number of possible combinations is 62 to the L (length) power.

The simplest example is binary.  If each character may be 1 or 0, string of 3 characters is 2 * 2 * 2 = 8
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Mathematics, Java, good enough Duncan Idaho <duncan@dunenoemail.com> - 2016-05-17 11:49 +0100
  Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 04:55 -0700
  Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2016-05-17 12:56 +0100
    Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2016-05-17 13:06 +0100
    Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Duncan Idaho <duncan@dunenoemail.com> - 2016-05-17 13:29 +0100
      Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-05-17 09:54 -0400
        Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough FredK <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 07:17 -0700
          Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough FredK <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 07:29 -0700
            Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-05-17 10:58 -0400
              Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Duncan Idaho <duncan@dunenoemail.com> - 2016-05-17 18:10 +0100
                Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-05-17 14:02 -0400
                Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-05-17 14:10 -0400
                Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 11:36 -0700
                Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-05-17 16:12 -0400
                Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 13:56 -0700
                Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-05-17 14:13 -0700
                Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Duncan Idaho <duncan@dunenoemail.com> - 2016-05-18 05:06 +0100
  Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-05-17 08:25 -0400
  Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-05-17 12:24 +0000
  Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Duncan Idaho <duncan@dunenoemail.com> - 2016-05-17 18:15 +0100
    Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-05-17 13:33 -0400
    Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-05-17 14:09 -0400
      Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-05-17 14:17 -0700
        Re: Mathematics, Java, good enough Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-05-17 17:49 -0400

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