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Permutation

A permutation is a way to order a set of things.
For example, if your set is the letters in the word WHO, then one other ordering would be WOH. This is a permutation of the letters in WHO.
Here are all the possible orderings of the letters in the word WHO:

	WHO  WOH  HWO  HOW  OWH  OHW 
There are 6 different ways to order the letters in the word WHO. To learn more about permutations, see the permutation notes.