A researcher plans to identify each participant in a certain medical experiment with a code consisting of either a single letter or a pair of distinct letters written in alphabetic order.What is the least number of letters that can be used if there are 12 participants, and each participant is to receive a different code?
written in alphabetic order 你n(n-1)的組合中會有BA CA...這些不按字母順序排列之組合.我的算法是直接舉例 EX:A B兩字母有(A.B.AB)三種組合A B C有(A.B.C.AB.AC.BC)六種以此類推歸納出N個字母排法有1+2+3+...+N>=12接下來用梯形公式(n+1)n/2>=12.............所以4帶入=10<12....5帶入=15>12 就選B吧