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Re: subsets of a set

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  • Subject: [mg70063] Re: [mg70001] subsets of a set
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
  • Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 04:10:55 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <200609300912.FAA13086@smc.vnet.net>

On 30 Sep 2006, at 18:12, dimmechan at yahoo.com wrote:

> In page 226 of John Gray's Mastering Mathematica
> (unfortunately I had the 1994's edition)
> there is the following exercise:
>
> "Given a finite set (presented as a list) and an integer k
> find all k-element subsets of the set".
>
> There is one solution however for practicing (no there is no professor
> that asked me this for homeworks! I work individually...) I search for
> other
>
> So considering the following list
>
> lst = Tuples[Range[7], 3];
>
> I can erase the sublists containg at least two same elements
>
> Cases[lst, {x_, y_, z_} /; x ß?  y && x ß?  z && y ß?  z]
>
> but after I cannot erase the permutations of e.g. {1,2,3};
> that is in the output there are the sublists {1,2,3},
> {2,1,3},{3,1,2} e.t.c. for other triplets.
>
> I look for both functional as well pattern matching approaches.
>
> Thanks
>


Subsets[Range[7], {3}]

??

Andrzej Kozlowski


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