tin_robot wrote:This seems as good a place as any to post this. An article about Robert Schneider - once a record producer/frontman for Apples in Stereo, who's dropped it all to become a mathematician.
Exactly, watching 1 to 14 and then 1 again creates two different permutations. It's a pretty interesting bit of maths to work out how many episodes you string together to contain all 14! different episode combos.Yossarian wrote:Presumably because it’s the fewest steps, so if I watch episodes 1-14 that’s one permutation, if I then watch episode 1, that’s two permutations (1-14 and 2-14, 1). I think.
acemuzzy wrote:it's kinda boring maths
Andy wrote:I was wondering earlier if I’d got this right. So the idea is, if you take all the different permutations 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2 3 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 ... 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 1 3 2 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 1 2 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 then there are going to be loads which have massive overlaps, to the extent that the the last 13 numbers of one permutation is, at the same time, the first 13 numbers of the next, and the question is asking, for a given set of numbers, what’s the most overlaps (and therefore the least amount of numbers) you can have? So, if it’s two episodes, you can do it with 1 2 1. Yeah?
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