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- From: krishnam@math.vt.edu (Ravi Krishnamurthy)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.matlab
- Subject: Re: Enumerating Combinations
- Message-ID: <KRISHNAM.93Jan23202510@corona.math.vt.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 01:25:10 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.214452.26779@news.yale.edu>
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- Organization: Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, VA 24061
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- In-reply-to: wayne@econ.yale.edu's message of 23 Jan 93 21:44:52 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.214452.26779@news.yale.edu> wayne@econ.yale.edu (Kevin Wayne) writes:
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- > I want to enumerate all combinations of n items taken p at a time for
- > arbitrary n, p<=n.
- >
- > (i.e., for (n,p)=(5,3) generate a sequence of vectors:
- > [1 2 3], [1 2 4], [1 2 5], [1 3 4], [1 3 5], [1 4 5],
- > [2 3 4], [2 3 5], [2 4 5], [3 4 5] )
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- > Obviously, the computational effort will increase exponentially, but I only
- > need to use it for relatively small n.
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- > If anyone has written such code, please send e-mail. Thanks in advance.
-
- I'm also interested in having this program if someone has it. Can I have
- copy too?
-
- Thanks!
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