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Morph Materials Probs

    08-Apr-94 03:29:09
Fm: Gus Grubba 70673,1605
To: alec jason 71137,2632
I went through the same sequence of thoughts. The difference here is that it doesn't matter the order. White and Blue is the same as Blue and White. Once White and Blue is discarded as a pair, the array gets reduced by one and the process loops. Select the first color and you have 199 combinations. This first color has been "combined" with all other colors (or materials for that matter). Move over to the second and you have now 198 combinations (you can't combine with the first as it has already been done). From here on is just a simple regression (199+198+197+196…). I could, just well be way off here. The last time I did anything related to combinatory analysis was in High School 15 years ago… <g>