RE: doing things on a procedural way and doing them on a functional way
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- Subject: [mg46971] RE: [mg46952] doing things on a procedural way and doing them on a functional way
- From: "Wolf, Hartmut" <Hartmut.Wolf at t-systems.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 01:24:56 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
>-----Original Message----- >From: Pedrito [mailto:pedrito6 at softhome.net] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 8:29 AM >To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >Subject: [mg46971] [mg46952] doing things on a procedural way and doing them on a >functional way > > >Hello Mathgroup! > > >I wanted to figure how to obtain all the possible combinations of five >numbers and four non-conmutative non-asociative operations. > >This means: >if we have numbers: a b c d e >and the non-conmutative non-asociative operation: ? > >it's possible to make the following (different) expressions: >a ? (b ? (c ? (d ? e))) >a ? (b ? (c ? d) ? e)) >... >(a ? b) ? (c ? d) ? e > > >For practical reasons you can think that the operation ? is ^ (power). > > > >I have already obtained (by hand) all the possible combinations: > lst={{a, {b, {c, {d, e}}}}, {a, {b, {{c, d}, e}}}, {a, >{{b, c}, {d, >e}}}, {a, {{b, {c, d}}, e}}, {a, {{{b, c}, d}, e}}, {{a, b}, >{c, {d, e}}}, >{{a, b}, {{c, d}, e}}, {{a, {b, c}}, {d, e}}, {{{a, b}, c}, >{d, e}}, {{a, >{b, {c, d}}}, e}, {{a, {{b, c}, d}}, e}, {{{a, b}, {c, d}}, >e}, {{{a, {b, >c}}, d}, e}, {{{{a, b}, c}, d}, e}} > > And then I transformed them into an expressions by: >Module[{x = 1}, > ToExpression[ > StringReplace[ > ToString[#1], {"{" -> "(", "}" -> ")", > "," :> {"^", "^", "^", "^"}\[LeftDoubleBracket] > x++\[RightDoubleBracket]}]]] & /@ lst > > >If you can help me to do it better... > > >Pedro L. > You may define a recursive procedure to generate the nestings: Clear[nocnac] nocnac[{arg_}, op_] := {arg} nocnac[{args__}, op_] := Flatten[ReplaceList[{args}, {a__, b__} :> Outer[op, nocnac[{a}, op], nocnac[{b}, op]]]] nocnac[{1}, CenterDot] ==> {1} nocnac[{1, 2}, CenterDot] ==> {1·2} nocnac[{1, 2, 3}, CenterDot] ==> {1·(2·3), (1·2)·3} nocnac[{1, 2, 3, 4}, CenterDot] ==> {1·(2·(3·4)), 1·((2·3)·4), (1·2)·(3·4), (1·(2·3))·4, ((1·2)·3)·4} nocnac[{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, CenterDot] ==> {1·(2·(3·(4·5))), 1·(2·((3·4)·5)), 1·((2·3)·(4·5)), 1·((2·(3·4))·5), 1·(((2·3)·4)·5), (1·2)·(3·(4·5)), (1·2)·((3·4)·5), (1·(2·3))·(4·5), ((1·2)·3)·(4·5), (1·(2·(3·4)))·5, (1·((2·3)·4))·5, ((1·2)·(3·4))·5, ((1·(2·3))·4)·5, (((1·2)·3)·4)·5} Length[nocnac[Range[#], op]] & /@ Range[10] ==> {1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 132, 429, 1430, 4862} -- Hartmut Wolf