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Cartesian Product the cute way

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  • Subject: Cartesian Product the cute way
  • From: cfw2 at po.cwru.edu (Charles F. Wells)
  • Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 17:27:11 -0500


This is to brag about the following simple way to define the
cartesian product of two sets represented as lists:

In[1] := CartesianProduct[lists__] := 
   Distribute[List[lists],List]
   
In[2] := CartesianProduct[{a,b},{1,2,3},{x,y}]

Out[2] = {{a, 1, x}, {a, 1, y}, {a, 2, x}, {a, 2, y}, {a, 3, x}, 
 
 {a, 3, y}, {b, 1, x}, {b, 1, y}, {b, 2, x}, {b, 2, y}, 
 
 {b, 3, x}, {b, 3, y}}
 
Isn't that cute?

Charles Wells
Department of Mathematics
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106-7058
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