How many ways are there to arrange the letters in the word ALGORITHMS? Note, the letter arrangement does not have to spell a word in the dictionary, but the new word must contain all the letters and each letter can be used only once.
Hint: Start with shorter words (e.g ALG or ALGO) and see if a pattern emerges with the number of possible arrangements.
The word 'ALGORITHMS' has 10 letters.
There is no repeated letter.
Then
There are 3628800 ways to arrange the letters in the word ALGORITHMS.
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