What 20-, 29-, 44- and 53-Across are of each other

Usage examples of permutations.

Experience and instinct combined to send him after the right indices, the right permutations, the right rubrics, the right depths.

It’s true that the Torah—the visible Jbrah, that is—is only one of the possible permutations of the letters of the eternal Torah, as God created it and delivered it to the angels.

The problem is to find all the permutations of the name of God, isn’t it?

Because if there were eight letters in the name of God, there would be forty thousand three hundred and twenty permutations, and if ten, there would be three million six hundred twenty-eight thousand eight hundred, and the permutations of your own wretched little name, first name and last, would come to almost forty million.

But suppose you had a machine capable of generating a million permutations per second.

And if you want to Calculate all the permutations of all the characters in the entire Torah, then all the zeros in the world will not be enough for you.

With six letters—lahveh—he had seven hundred and twenty permutations at his disposal.

One always encounters jumps of that size when dealing with permutations and combinations.

It runs through the Bugs Bunny cartoons: 'You wascal wabbitl' But out of that schizzy mixture of hallucination and logomania, Weishaupt saw both the mystic meaning of the Five and its pragmatic application as a principal of international espionage, using permutations and combinations that I'll explain when we have a pencil and paper.

Combining his childhood penchant for pure mathematics, his ability to conceive in abstract permutations as developed and displayed in his Gô training, and his native facility in six languages, he was able to locate the errors in decoding fairly easily.

Gô had trained his intellect to conceive in terms of liquid permutations, rather than the simple problem/solution grid of Western cultures.

Besides, we need not concern ourselves with the permutations of those twelve men.

The higher machine intelligences could well have come up with it, if only by running through permutations of concepts at the near-light speed of their data processing.

The destiny of the cybercosm was to transcend the material universe, but before then, some of the permutations might prove important.

If the ultimate law of physics is now known, the permutations of matter and energy are not.