permutations

permutations . . . learned abt this mathematical process in an academic setting decades ago . . nvr had a practical reason 2 use it . . until . . considering mathematics and betting odds of the order of death: Arakawa Hackman Dog . . cud b considered irreverent . . can’t defend myself fr an accusation not made . . NM coroner’s report wud lead a reader 2 conclude Arakawa died 1st then the dog . . then Hackman . . so the 95 yr old w a malfunctioning brain survived young wife and young dog . . ¿Wat? r the odds . . . this is x actly wat got me 2 resurrect a distant memory of the math that wud determine the possibilities . . iow . . 3 mammals die . . if fanduel placed bets on the order of death after died simultaneously was ruled out . .  how ¿Many? possibilities r there . . the answer is 6 . . and it goes a ltl something like this: . . a properly worded google search starting: if given A B C how many sequences . . will give the correct answer . . 3! . . in most calculators including my default android app will yield 6 . . but pero but that’s no fun . . Hana my wife and eye did this on r own last night . . eye used the aforementioned methods so eye knew that answer was 6 . . . w cells 2 place the 18 words: man woman dog . . eye b gan moving the 18 words on a spreadsheet . . whala . . the manual method confirms the math . . Hana insisted on solving the hard way so eye was prohibited fr telling her the answer was 6 . . she used pen and paper and wrote all the variations her orderly mind cud imagine . . . then she realized there wr duplicates and b gan crossing out . . 6 remained