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Re: Listing the partitions of a set

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  • Subject: [mg65305] Re: [mg65282] Listing the partitions of a set
  • From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa at jeol.com>
  • Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 05:17:40 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <200603240559.AAA26153@smc.vnet.net>
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On Mar 24, 2006, at 12:59 AM, Richard Palmer wrote:

>
> Is there a simple way to list the partitions of a set?  For  
> example, there
> are 15 partitions on a set of 4 elements.  {{{1, 2, 3, 4}}, {1, {2,  
> 3, 4}},
> {{1, 3, 4}, 2}, {{1, 2, 4}, 3}, {{1, 2, 3},    4}, {{1, 2}, {3,  
> 4}}, {{1,
> 3}, {2, 4}}, {{1, 4}, {2, 3}}, {1, 2, {3, 4}}, {1, 3, {2, 4}}, {1,  
> 4, {2,
> 3}}, {2, 3, {1, 4}}, {2,    4, {1, 3}}, {3, 4, {1, 2}}, {1, 2, 3,  
> 4}} .

<<DiscreteMath`Combinatorica`
SetPartitions[Range[4]]
Out[2]=
{{{1,2,3,4}},{{1},{2,3,4}},{{1,2},{3,4}},{{1,3,4},{2}},{{1,2,3},{4}}, 
{{1,
       4},{2,3}},{{1,2,4},{3}},{{1,3},{2,4}},{{1},{2},{3,4}},{{1},{2,
       3},{4}},{{1},{2,4},{3}},{{1,2},{3},{4}},{{1,3},{2},{4}},{{1,
       4},{2},{3}},{{1},{2},{3},{4}}}

Regards,

Ssezi


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