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Not sure what a strait line is! Five people can stand in a straight line, with Jessie third in 24 ways if you ignore left-to-right and right-to-left "reflections".
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There are 7 people who could stand first, with 6 people who could stand second for each of those first people, with 5 people who could stand third for each of those first two people, and so on, until with 1 person left who could stand seventh for each of the first six people. This gives 7 × 6 × 5 × ... × 1 = 5040 ways.
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There are n! (n factorial) ways that n people can stand in line. So six people can stand in line in: 1*2*3*4*5*6 = 720 different ways
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Limbo by Bernard Wolfe has 25 chapters.
Not sure what a strait line is! Five people can stand in a straight line, with Jessie third in 24 ways if you ignore left-to-right and right-to-left "reflections".
It usually depends on how many people are there.
If the people are always facing forward? 24 ways.
Last Day in Limbo has 256 pages.
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There are 7 people who could stand first, with 6 people who could stand second for each of those first people, with 5 people who could stand third for each of those first two people, and so on, until with 1 person left who could stand seventh for each of the first six people. This gives 7 × 6 × 5 × ... × 1 = 5040 ways.
Edward Kamau Brathwaite wrote Limbo to describe the pain the West African slaves went through on the ships. How they were in darkness and also how no matter what they did they couldn't escape all they could here was their heart beating in the rhythm of limbo.
1,000 people.