Permutation, Combination and Subset
Permutation
Number of ways to order a given input
Example: permutations of ABCD, taken 3 at a time (24 variants): ABC, ACB, BAC, BCA, ...
Combination
Number of ways of selecting input
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Example: combination of ABCD, taken 3 at a time (4 variants): ABC, ABD, ACD, and BCD.
Subset
Selection of objects from given set, considering all possible sizes of subsets. It includes subsets of different lengths, ranging from an empty subset to the full set itself.
subset of ABCD: 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D,' 'AB' , 'AC', 'AD', 'BC', 'BD', 'CD', 'ABC', ...
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