Re: Coding an inverse permutation
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- Subject: [mg79141] Re: Coding an inverse permutation
- From: "Dana DeLouis" <dana.del at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:39:19 -0400 (EDT)
> I want to figure out a clean way to code its inverse permutation. > The inverse permutation list would start as follows: > bb={1,2,4,5,3,10,8,6, ...} Hi. Just 2 cents.... Needs["Combinatorica`"] aa = {1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 8, 9, 7, <<snip>> , 97, 72, 82, 91, 87}; Is this a "Permutation" ? PermutationQ[aa] False No. Otherwise you could use InversePermutation[aa] I don't think what you want will work because your list is not a Permutation. For example, when you get to 97 in your list, there is no position 97, since your list is only 88 long. Therefore, there is a logic error in your request. {Length[aa], Max[aa]} {88, 97} Your permutation is missing the following numbers: missing = Complement[Range[Max[aa]], aa] {78, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 93, 94, 96} -- HTH :>) Dana DeLouis Windows XP & Mathematica 6.0.1 "Diana" <diana.mecum at gmail.com> wrote in message news:f7kdht$49n$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Folks, > > I have the following list: > > aa={1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 8, 9, 7, 11, 6, 13, 17, 10, 16, 19, 15, 14, 20, 21, > 23, 25, 12, 29, 31, 18, 22, > 37, 27, 26, 28, 33, 35, 32, 24, 41, 43, 30, 34, 47, 39, 38, 40, 45, > 49, 44, 36, 53, 55, 46, 52, > 59, 51, 50, 56, 57, 61, 62, 42, 67, 71, 48, 58, 65, 63, 64, 68, 69, > 73, 74, 54, 77, 79, 60, 76, > 83, 75, 80, 70, 81, 89, 85, 66, 95, 97, 72, 82, 91, 87} > > I want to figure out a clean way to code its inverse permutation. > > The inverse permutation list would start as follows: > > bb={1,2,4,5,3,10,8,6, ...} > > Since "3" is in position 4 of aa, position 3 of bb will be "4". > Since "5" is in position 3 of aa, position 5 of bb will be "3". > > Can someone give me a suggestion as to how to code this? > > Thanks, Diana