#873 · Combinatorics · Counting
Flag signal arrangements
How many different signals can be formed by hoisting 6 differently coloured flags one above the other, when any number of them may be hoisted at once?
H. S. Hall & S. R. Knight, Higher Algebra (1891) · Ch. XI. Permutations and Combinations, Examples XI.a, No. 33
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