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The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups.
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A selection in which order has no importance.
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The arrangement of a set of objects without regard to the order in which the objects are selected.
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A situation in which the order of selecting various items does not matter. The combination of things taken at a time is written formally as C(n,m) or nCm or . In general, C(n,m) is calculated by evaluating the expression P(n,m)/m!, But , so . [ DMTA, p 285
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the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order
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a group of objects in which the order or arrangement of the objects is disregarded
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an arrangement of a group of items that is not in a specific order
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an arrangement of objects without repetition and where order is not important
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a selection in which order is unimportant
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a selection of all or part of a set of objects, without regard to the order in which objects are selected
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a selection of elements from a set, where each element may be choosen once and the sequence of selection is unimportant
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a selection of objects from a set of objects, that is objects are chosen from a particular set and listed, but the order in which the objects are listed is immaterial
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a subset of a certain size of some set of objects, without regard to their order
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a subset of the N elements, independent of order
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A group of elements from a set in which the order of the elements is not important.
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A subset of the elements in a given set, without regard to the order in which those elements are arranged.
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An algebraic term denoting that a series of groups is to be taken from a larger group without regard to order. It is also loosely used as an instruction to permute a series of forecasts.
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The number of selections of r different items from n distinguishable items when the order of selection is ignored.
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A group of items. Placing these items in a different order does not create a new combination.
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A subset from a larger set that is considered without regard to the order of the items chosen.Example: The number of different committees of seven that can be chosen from a group of twenty-one people. Also see the definition of "Permutations."
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In combinatorial mathematics, a combination is an un-ordered collection of unique elements. (An ordered collection is called a permutation.) Given S, the set of all possible unique elements, a combination is a subset of the elements of S.
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