To be or not to be, is that really the whole list?

Jul 18, 2010 08:31

Casey Kasem and David Letterman count down the top ten numbers from one to ten.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbMfqgGBCYU

Some know that I have an odd quirk in that I tend to enjoy counting and enumerating things. The vid above is mildly amusing to start and has a reasonably big payoff if you're familiar with Casey Kasem's countdown radio show.

I now find myself pondering how much I care about the order of the things I count or enumerate. I'm also extra amused by the above because just a couple of days ago I was explaining the difference between combinations and permutations to a couple people in an attempt to explain why the number of items in a sample space can be different from the number of possible outcomes of an experiment.
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