What is the permutation of choosing the just 3 balls in a pool of 16 balls?

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I was reading permutation without repetition which says that

In a pool if $16$ balls there are $N!$ possibilities, which is, $16 × 15 × 14 × 13 × ... = 20922789888000$ possibilities

But when we don't want to choose them all, just $3$ of them, and that is then: $16 × 15 × 14 = 3360$ or $\frac {16!}{13!}$

My doubt is when we want to choose only $3$ balls out of $16$ then it is $3! = 6$. Is this understanding correct?

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I assume that order matters. Then the correct answer is $16 \times 15 \times 14$, because for the first ball I have 16 possible choices, then for the second ball, when one is removed, I have 15 choices (i.e for each first ball chosen I have 15 options remaining). And then, for the third ball, I have 14 options remaining. $3!=6$ would be correct if I had total of 3 balls. For example, I have balls a, b, c. Then possible choices are abc acb bac bca cab cba

But if I add fourth ball here, d, you will see that I have to consider other possibilities also, for example, acd.