According to this calculation, there are a grand total of about 87 billion different permutations for those 14 distinct phrases.
Sad! Rutledge, 48, told The Huffington Post that the numbers would change under different assumptions about, for example, the number of distinct phrases.
For one thing, he couldn't seem to stop calling her and President Obama's leadership "weak and feckless" ― three times, in total, a significant number of times to use such a distinct phrase.
And let's just ask the simple, calculable question: What is the probability that, giving Melania Trump the same distinct phrases as used by Michelle Obama, they are used in exactly the same order?
But the musical characteristics of the Lanier setting, including simplicity of texture, distinct phrases, use of an échappée, and the suggestion of a rhythmic motif through use of a recurring pattern of eighth notes, point to contemporary text setting techniques.
In a series of posts to Twitter and Facebook, Rutledge ran the numbers, breaking down the disputed passages into distinct phrases of a few words each ― "word is your bond," "because we want our children," "willingness to work for them" and so on.
Trill syllables, whether discrete or connected, are produced as a distinct phrase or burst with durations of approximately 25 ms (mean: 24±0.9 ms N = 70, range 8 45 ms) and have average intervals between syllables of 3.7 ms [4].
T. brasiliensis, on the other hand, produce highly stereotyped syllables that do not grade into each other, but instead are organized into discrete and distinct phrases much like the songs of many bird species.
Aggregated documents contain all distinct phrases that occur in the whole training corpus along with their frequencies.
