Counting the combinations of m things out of n (Section 4.5), that is, the The paradigm problem is counting the number of ways different horses can win, place, and show in a horse race.
There is a simple way to do this in Outlook: Search folders. Counting the messages by hand is not a good solution as there are too many emails to manually count, plus its too slow. Several users wanted to know how to count the number of messages received within a period of time, usually Today.