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Comment by ThomasBHickey

18 days ago

Try starting with a 2x2, then 3x3, etc. image and manually list all the possibilities.

That's focusing on the wrong thing; as I said, "I know it's 10 x 10 x 10 meaning 10^3 I don't need that explanation [for the correct combinations], what I'm looking for is an intuition for why it isn't 10x3".

  • ChatGPT might be able to explain combinatorics if you use the keyterm.

    I’m fond of derangements and their relationship with permutations, which contain a factor of e.