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NCAA tournament math question?
Here is a math problem, and I hope someone could provide an anwser.
How many different possible combinations are there when filling a bracket in? In other words, how many different brackets could one make? How many different brackets could one make if none of the 10-16 seeds made it past round 2
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03-22-2003, 07:50 PM | #2 |
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a million jillion kabillion...
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03-22-2003, 07:51 PM | #3 |
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I dont think this is correct, but im guessing 384 different brackets
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03-22-2003, 07:51 PM | #4 |
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Is this a puzzle?
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03-22-2003, 07:55 PM | #5 |
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Somebody get Quik in here, he'll solve it for us...
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03-22-2003, 07:58 PM | #6 |
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All combinations is
64 X 32 X 16 X 8 x 4 x 2 which gives me 2,097,152 Todd
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03-22-2003, 08:37 PM | #7 |
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03-22-2003, 08:57 PM | #8 |
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Im thinking its 64^6th power which would be 68,719,476,736 but I dont know enough math to be sure my anwser is correct.
If thats true then not including the 10-16 seed would be something like (64^2)+(36^4)=1,683,712
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