Re: Combinatorics question
- Subject: [mg3321] Re: Combinatorics question
- From: jorma.virtamo at vtt.fi (Jorma Virtamo)
- Date: 26 Feb 1996 07:07:46 -0600
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- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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<PESCC at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> wrote: >Can somenone help me find the following: > >I have a list of 20 numbers, and I would like to list all the >combinations of these numbers taken 6 at a time. The Binomial >function tells me there are 38760, but I would like to actually >see all of them. >Thanks in advance for your help. Use the function KSubsets of the standard package DiscreteMath`Combinatorica`: <<DiscreteMath`Combinatorica` subs = KSubsets[ListOf20Numbers,6]; -- Jorma Virtamo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jorma Virtamo VTT Information Technology phone: +358 0 456 5612 Telecommunications fax: +358 0 455 0115 P.O. Box 1202 email: jorma.virtamo at vtt.fi FIN-02044 VTT web: http://www.vtt.fi/tte/ Finland