document.write( "Question 806320: How many different ways can 12 books be arranged on a shelf? How about 52 playing cards? If the above are rearranged once every second, bow long will all the permutations take to complete? \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "12! for the books,\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "It would take over 15 years to rearrange the books that many times, IF you never stopped to sleep, eat, use the bathroom, or anything else.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "As for the cards, if you had started at the instant of the Big Bang, you would not have even made a dent in the

permutations. You would only have managed to create

of them, or about

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\n" ); document.write( "Egw to Beta kai to Sigma
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