346.--SETTING THE BOARD.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

I have a single chessboard and a single set of chessmen. In how many different ways may the men be correctly set up for the beginning of a game? I find that most people slip at a particular point in making the calculation.

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