Thread: how many arrangements?

How many arrangements of the word CHARACTERISTIC are there?

I'm assuming you mean if you use all of the letters.

If I counted correctly, there are 3 C's, 1 H, 2 A's, 2 R's, 2 T's, 1 E, 2 I's, and 1 S.

then the number of distinguisable permutations of the 14 letters of "characteristic" is

ok so the answer is then

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