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I don't understand. If you have 300 notes, and 12 tones, the number of different melodies you can play is 12^300 (12 choices at each step). Why is it 300 factor
by akd 18y ago
I don't understand. If you have 300 notes, and 12 tones, the number of different melodies you can play is 12^300 (12 choices at each step). Why is it 300 factorial? You don't have 300 distinct entities to permute.
- bdr 18y agoIt was in the context of drawing the diagonals on the polygon, so I thought of quadratic growth. I guess everyone interpreted it differently, and the author is justified in using 'exponential' in an informal way.