[Scilab-users] Scilab Scholar module for schools: permutation

[Peter Ridder]

usually you find a hind while looking up  the mathematical meaning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation
There:
'k-permutations of n'

It's exactly that what you find there

2014-07-08 15:50 GMT+02:00 tanthiamhuat <tanthiamhuat at yahoo.com>:
> permutation(n,p) returns the number of permutations of p elements taken from
> n with n and p positive integers or zero and p<=n.
>
> -->permutation(4,3)
>  ans  =
>
>     24.
>
> -->permutation(5,3)
>  ans  =
>
>     60.
>
> -->permutation(6,3)
>  ans  =
>
>     120.
>
> Can someone help me clarify what does this permutation do?
>
>
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