SOLUTION: Please help me to solve this: Find the largest number of permutation of the letters in "Mathematics"?

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Question 1009177: Please help me to solve this: Find the largest number of permutation of the letters in "Mathematics"?
Answer by farohw(175) About Me  (Show Source):
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The word MATHEMATICS has 11 letters. However, there are 2 M's, 2 A's and 2 T's.

Therefore,

11%21%2F%282%21%2A2%21%2A2%21%29 = 39,916,800/8

= 4,989,600 is the largest number of permutations.