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Re: Faster ways to unionize intersecting sets?

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  • Subject: [mg70299] Re: Faster ways to unionize intersecting sets?
  • From: Peter Pein <petsie at dordos.net>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:37:14 -0400 (EDT)
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lsha schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried mergeSets2[] and the answer is different from mergeSets[].
> An example:
> In[34]:=
> s = {{1, 2}, {2, 3}, {4, 5}, {6, 7}, {7, 5}, {9, 10}, {11, 12}, {13, 14}};
> 
> 
> In[35]:=
> mergeSets[s]
> Out[35]=
> {{1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6, 7}, {9, 10}, {11, 12}, {13, 14}}
> 
> 
> In[36]:=
> mergeSets2[s]
> Out[36]=
> {{{9, 10}, {11, 12}, {13, 14}}, {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}}
> 
> The non-intersecting singles are correct but the intersecting sets are all
> merged together with mergeSets2[].
> 
> Regards,
> Ling Sha
> 

Hi,

just my 2 cents:

s={{1,2},{2, 3},{4, 5},{6,7},{7,5},{9,10},{11,12},{13,14}};
s//.{a___,x_List,b___,y_List,c___}/;Intersection[x,y]=!={}:>{a,Union[x,y],b,c}

--> {{1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6, 7}, {9, 10}, {11, 12}, {13, 14}}

Peter


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