RE: Creating combinations from a group of sets
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- Subject: [mg48705] RE: [mg48679] Creating combinations from a group of sets
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 03:52:28 -0400 (EDT)
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Jeanette, Use Outer. Flatten[Outer[List, {1, 2, 3}, {4, 5}, {6}, {7, 8}], 3] {{1, 4, 6, 7}, {1, 4, 6, 8}, {1, 5, 6, 7}, {1, 5, 6, 8}, {2, 4, 6, 7}, {2, 4, 6, 8}, {2, 5, 6, 7}, {2, 5, 6, 8}, {3, 4, 6, 7}, {3, 4, 6, 8}, {3, 5, 6, 7}, {3, 5, 6, 8}} Inner is also a neat command when you want to combine elements of two equal length objects with the same head. For example.. eqn1 = a == b; eqn2 = b == c; Inner[Divide, eqn1, eqn2, Equal] a/b == b/c David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ -----Original Message----- From: Jeanette L Domber [mailto:Jeanette.L.Domber at aero.org] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg48705] [mg48679] Creating combinations from a group of sets I have a group of sets: {1,2,3} {4,5} {6} {7,8} I wish to create all unique combinations of the sets that contain exactly one element from each set: {1,4,6,7} {1,5,6,7} {1,4,6,8} {1,5,6,8} {2,4,6,7} {2,5,6,7} etc. In all, there should be 12 combinations. If I use KSubsets giving it a list {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8} to create combinations containing 4 elements, I get a list of 70 combinations, 58 of which are extraneous to my application. Does anyone know how to manipulate the functions in DiscreteMath`Combinatorica` to accomplish this efficiently? Thanks, Jeanette