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Re: Arrangements

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  • Subject: [mg108911] Re: Arrangements
  • From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:43:46 -0400 (EDT)
  • Reply-to: hanlonr at cox.net

lst = Table[{"A", "B"}, {8}] // Flatten

{A,B,A,B,A,B,A,B,A,B,A,B,A,B,A,B}

p = Permutations[lst];

Length[p] == Binomial[16, 8]

True

There are no duplicates

Length[Union[p]] == Length[p]

True

p[[RandomInteger[{1, Length[p]}]]]

{B,A,B,A,B,A,B,A,B,A,A,B,A,B,B,A}


Bob Hanlon

---- John <jwa0 at lehigh.edu> wrote: 

=============
Google 6, Windows-Xp

The number of different arrangements of sixteen symbols -- eight
letters A and eight letters B -- is Binomial[16,8]=12870. Is there a
command that will generate all 12870 arrangements one at a time
without duplication? Any order is acceptable.

I used RandomSample[Range[16]] to select a random permutation of
sixteen different symbols. Assigning the letter A to the first eight
numbers in the random permutation and the letter B to the last eight
letters in the permutation created a randomly selected arrangement.
Awkward, but it works because Binomial[2n,n](n!)(n!)=(2n)!).

John




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