On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:20:59 -0800, Bob Terwilliger
> wrote:

>tert in seattle wrote:
>
>> how many four cheese combinations are there anyway?
>
>Wikipedia says that at least 2065 different cheeses are in existence
>(more than 700 in the UK alone).
>
>The combination of 2065 things taken four at a time is
>
>2065! / (4! * 2061!) = 2065 * 2064 * 2063 * 2062 / 24 = 755,451,166,540

Thanks Bob-- my head was starting to hurt trying to think of how to do
the math.

Jim