How many 4-character passwords can be formed using digits from {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} without repetition?
Specialist Mathematics · Unit 1 · Combinatorics · Permutations (ordered arrangements) and combinations (unordered selections)
Define and use permutations.
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