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Re: REQ:Algorythm for combinations

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg8550] Re: REQ:Algorythm for combinations
• From: murray at math.umass.edu (Murray Eisenberg)
• Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 23:16:16 -0400
• Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

marc borms (marc at sc1000.az.vub.ac.be) wrote:
: who knows the algorythm or a program to print out 
: all possible combinations of x elements ?

If you mean "permuations" rather than "combinations", then this is a
built-in function (at least in Mathematica 3.0).

If you do indeed mean "combinations", then see the function KSubsets
in standard addon package DiscreteMath`Combinatorica`.

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