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Re: Listing the partitions of a set

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  • Subject: [mg65313] Re: [mg65282] Listing the partitions of a set
  • From: Pratik Desai <pratikd at wolfram.com>
  • Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 05:17:52 -0500 (EST)
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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}} .  
>
>   
Here is a link for a site where there is an implementation of the Bell 
List (which I hope does what you want)
http://mathforum.org/advanced/robertd/bell.html


Hope this helps

Pratik Desai
Wolfram Research
Tech Support




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