Although I, you know, I think a lot of things like this, it's always best to reason through than to try to figure out whether some formula applies to it. So in this situation, well, if we went in order, we could have 26 different letters for the first one, 26 different possibilities for the first one. You know, I'm always starting with that one, but there's nothing special about the one on the left. We could say that the one on the right, there's 26 possibilities. Well, for each of those possibilities, for each of those 26 possibilities, there might be 25 possibilities for what we put in the middle one if we say we're gonna figure out the middle one next. And then for each of these 25 times 26 possibilities for where we figured out two of the letters, there's 24 possibilities because we've already used two letters for the last bucket that we haven't filled. And the only reason why I went 26, 25, 24 is to show you there's nothing special about always filling in the leftmost letter or the leftmost chair first.