[Kwantuum]

> (damnit, of course calculating the permutations of a list is n-squared, but this is an interrogation of the random trivia I can manage to recall and I feel like a deer in the headlights)

With this statement I'm inclined to believe the title. Last I checked there are (n-1)! permutations for a list of length n. Not knowing this off the top of your head is fine, but making this kind of comment is an unforced error and it doesn't reflect well on the author.