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Re: Combinations

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  • Subject: [mg49721] Re: Combinations
  • From: sean_incali at yahoo.com (sean kim)
  • Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:44:37 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <ce5dk5$b87$1@smc.vnet.net>
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In[39]:=
Outer[List,{a,b,c},{a,b,c}, {a,b,c}]
%//Flatten[#,2]&
%//Length


Out[39]=
{{{{a,a,a},{a,a,b},{a,a,c}},{{a,b,a},{a,b,b},{a,b,c}},{{a,c,a},{a,c,b},{a,c,
        c}}},{{{b,a,a},{b,a,b},{b,a,c}},{{b,b,a},{b,b,b},{b,b,c}},{{b,c,a},{b,
        c,b},{b,c,c}}},{{{c,a,a},{c,a,b},{c,a,c}},{{c,b,a},{c,b,b},{c,b,
        c}},{{c,c,a},{c,c,b},{c,c,c}}}}
Out[40]=
{{a,a,a},{a,a,b},{a,a,c},{a,b,a},{a,b,b},{a,b,c},{a,c,a},{a,c,b},{a,c,c},{b,a,
    a},{b,a,b},{b,a,c},{b,b,a},{b,b,b},{b,b,c},{b,c,a},{b,c,b},{b,c,c},{c,a,
    a},{c,a,b},{c,a,c},{c,b,a},{c,b,b},{c,b,c},{c,c,a},{c,c,b},{c,c,c}}
Out[41]=
27

does what you want i think.

hth 
sean 


Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca> wrote in message news:<ce5dk5$b87$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Does Mathematica have a built-in function that will generate a simple 
> list all possible combinations of a list of strings?  For example, 
> {a,b,c}, where the elements are strings, should give 3x3=27 triplets of 
> "aaa", "aba", etc.
> 
> I tried
> 
> In[4]:=Outer[{a,b,c},{a,b,c},{a,b,c}]
> 
> but I get
> 
> {{{a, b, c}[a, a], {a, b, c}[a, b], {
>      a, b, c}[a, c]}, {{a, b, c}[b, a], {a, b, c}[b, b], {a, b,
>        c}[b, c]}, {{a, b, c}[c, a], {a, b, c}[c, b], {a, b, c}[c, c]}}
> 
> which is going to be difficult to match with my data using BinCounts 
> and the like.
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Greg


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