how is variation created by independent assortment?

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ummmmm...i don't remember much....power of independent assortment. Ok i think egg and sperm cells have 46 chromosomes so each set from dad and one from mom.
suppose example where the organisms has 6 chromosomes, 3 from the mother M1, M2, M3, and 3 matching from the father P1, P2, P3. 
Now, after meiosis, where the sperm or egg have only a single set of chromosomes, if independent assortment didn't happen the egg might be M1, M2, M3 OR P1, P2, or P3.... but because how one chromosome separates from its homologous pair doesn't influence how another does, we might have gametes of M1, P2, P3 or P1, M2, M3, That means for 3 chromosomes set here we have 2^3 combinations.