Often, to assign probabilities to events, we need to know how many
events there are.
Some standard examples:
- Number of binary numbers with 10 bits: 210 = 1024.
- Number of possible four letter words starting with a vowel: .
- Number of permutations of ``algorithm'': 9! = 362880.
- Number of distinct permutations of ``abba'':
.
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