[thelist] math help...

Joshua Olson joshua at waetech.com
Thu Mar 16 15:34:42 CST 2006


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Cummiskey
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 4:29 PM
> 
> My mind is going blank.  Can anyone help me with some math.
> 
> I have a random string generator using 0-9 and A-Z, and 
> filling 5 places 
> (XXXXX)
> 
> How many posibilities is this?  The math to solve this evades me.

Brian,

Assuming that the random is truly random, you should have (26 + 10)^5
permutations, or 60466176.

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