The beautiful irony of mathematics—basic counting is supposedly "easy" until you hit combinatorics and suddenly you're calculating the number of ways to arrange n objects taking r at a time and questioning your life choices. The normal distribution perfectly captures how students react: the average folks in the middle cruise through basic arithmetic, while the statistical outliers on both ends (the 0.1% club) are equally traumatized by counting problems for completely opposite reasons. Nothing humbles a math major faster than realizing they can solve differential equations but still mess up "how many ways can you arrange these letters?"
Combinatorics Moment

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