permutations

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by mfgoode

Thank you Davie, thats a new one for me.

Easy to remember too -- Bed Mistress as Sweetheart!

Mally

I invented it on the spur of the moment.
Guessed you'd like the "BED" part of it tho

David

[mfgoode]

Originally Posted by davieddy

What is the colour of the horse to which you are referring?

David

It's white and has a story that you will be mystified by!

Back in the old days -50's - Mumbai (then Bombay) was full of 'Victorias' a cheap form of transport. You know a horse driven carriage with a unique styling- thanks to British ingenuity.

Well I was dating a girl with animal passions and she always wanted to ride in a carriage drawn by a white horse. Now white horses here were rare, being reserved for the aristocrat's stables and meant for circuses, racing and the rest. So we were indeed lucky to get one on the roads.

Years later I realised when I read an account on Czarina Katherina of Russia why she was so mystified by white horses!

About the same time Simone du Beavoir ? came out with her classic
on "The second sex' ? (I hope I have got that right.) Yeah and she explained it very well why little girls are mystified by little boys piddling standing up as they cant do it. Do you get the connection ?

Mally

[davieddy]

Talking of changing horses in midstream
Mally, I sometimes forget what thread
we are on about;-)

David

[mfgoode]

Sorry Davie and to the others but its the same with me.

When someone put a cross thread reference I was at a loss as to which thread it is in.

Well I'm calling it a day as I have a date with Argentina at 02.30 this morning and before Wacky shunts us off by closing this thread I better wamoose!

Mally

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by mfgoode

Sorry Davie and to the others but its the same with me.

When someone put a cross thread reference I was at a loss as to which thread it is in.

Well I'm calling it a day as I have a date with Argentina at 02.30 this morning and before Wacky shunts us off by closing this thread I better wamoose!

Mally

I hope Argentina is good in bed

I thought she was a country (silly me)

David

[Xyzzy]

...many people here have access to arbitrary precision calculators making this sort of calculation trivial, but i don't...

You can get "bc" for many different operating systems, including Windows, for free.

http://www.gnu.org/software/bc/
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bc.htm

$ bc
bc 1.06
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.

define f(n) {if (n<=1) return (1); return (n*f(n-1))}

f(60)/f(4)^15
16481860109099054170027351546863185027378649716962500000000000

(f(60)/f(4))^15
12573440042967022554399646208738393172034538801875083669851005228747\
34260499677802720217276602439941962952775943942192052494930241655552\
62988852813160436703937901438163944159657618605216019694443174340910\
80457076447665707640398537934869440661181972976087953472785671437878\
71015943867854569107314256518536445125099952602449526254621897013471\
32032091711111832207259701768251616201127088495304030289490118189969\
37410974856698490766750942513641548687909045876044741858114128298525\
63014256430817573572400861631986537315373773779611014601613776922143\
06238315540810543138847144796370924882712878726422058701161408383263\
01835566252031881485329496457221387236297759114234540997798322156682\
84602634533981344000247085914741074144957406661117488023730682213850\
07838520468435642421480728494285441701884814371112389552635221933768\
58717440961052368825456019332050556539071821895499766721339652921559\
51182724296526639731668086402966517483252992314732224346257399332575\
41901181007987099285456439721705534118715981824000000000000000000000\
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Here is a funny link that is vaguely related to this thread:

http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html