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A foliage garden of orchard apple trees can be fun and rewarding, no matter what apple variety is grafted onto root stocks. Depending on variety and climate you can expect to harvest your apples at different times. Once the base skin color of the apples and a pleasing taste convince you that the fruits are harvested mature they require quick ripen off the plant to ensure excellent quality. Then you must decide the order of picking apples from the trees. A major question is now to enumerate trees in the garden by saying which tree “precedes” another. How many different orders are possible?
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Blanchard, P., Volchenkov, D. (2011). Introduction to Permutations, Markov Chains, and Partitions. In: Random Walks and Diffusions on Graphs and Databases. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19592-1_1
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