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Challenge #270: Pony Permutations

NicoleJohnson
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

Ride, Sally, ride!!

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Solved for 4, and then for 5 horses, all that is needed is an extra Append to add the 5th horse to the mix for every possible race outcome, and then filter for CountDistinct = 5. (Same would apply for any number of horses)
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Cheers!

NJ 

ryan-bush
Alteryx
Alteryx

Fun challenge!

Michael_McKee
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Now, what about the odds of winning?

ncrlelia
11 - Bolide

Challenge 270

dfurlow
8 - Asteroid

This helped me brush up on factorials! (and learn about renaming outputs in the append fields tool)

glenperes
8 - Asteroid

Solution: 

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Erin
9 - Comet

At work, we've started a Wednesday Weekly Challenge fun meeting to work through these as a team building thing 😎

JoePC
9 - Comet

Solution Attached

AnnaG
8 - Asteroid

Solution attached

MatthewBr
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

I did it two ways - With the multiple appends and with a macro. 

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