After many weeks of work, he had scarcely made a dent in the number of combinations that must be tested.

经过几个星期的工作后，对需要检试的组合数目他几乎还尚未开始进行。

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The power of the approach is derived from the number of combinations in which these toy pieces can be assembled.

该方法的功能来自于这些片段组装的组合数。

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The staggering number of combinations, each an indication of fraud or legitimacy, underscores the limitations of human analysis.

每一种组合因素都能指出（该项索赔）是欺诈还是合法，这样的组合数量惊人，相形之下显出人类分析的局限性。

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In that case, the number of combinations can exceed 10 billion!

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At the same time, he switched from a paper strip to punched cards. (Making the cards the same size as dollar bills meant that existing storage cabinets could be used.) By clever wiring of the tabulating machine, it was possible to count the number of cards with particular combinations of attributes.

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Ferguson experimented with a number of different forward combinations in Tuesday's 4-0 defeat to Tottenham.

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