Re: Just some thousands of combinations...
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- Subject: [mg109933] Re: Just some thousands of combinations...
- From: "M.Roellig" <markus.roellig at googlemail.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 07:19:47 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,
You could use RandomSample
RandomSample[Subsets[Range[90], {5}], 3000]
Cheers,
Markus
On 23 Mai, 09:17, "Dr. Bruno Campanini" <cmp... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Subsets[Range[90],{5}] should print all the
> Binomial[90,5] = 43 949 268 combinations.
>
> On my PC (4gb RAM) Mathematica 7.0 claims
> "Not enough memory".
>
> By the way, I only need to print some thousands
> of these combinations, then Subsets[Range[90],{5}, 3000]
> works fine.
> But it prints the first 3000 combination in lexicographic
> order. How to get 3000 random out of 43 949 268, not
> ordered?
>
> Bruno