Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics concerning the study of finite or countable discrete structures.

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Iterative “counting change” implementation in mit-scheme

Here is my iterative implementation of the Counting change example in SICP. Please note that I'm a beginner, which means I only know the basic syntax for the time being. Requirement: How many ...
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Calculating the count of integer partitions of a number, in Haskell (uses stateful vectors internally)

I've written a Haskell function to count the number of partitions of an integer - it's basically an implementation of the same algorithm as this one, using Euler's Pentagonal Number Theorem: $$P(n) = ...
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Equivalents permutations function

My function is supposed to essentially give the cartesian product of all the letters in a string with the caveat that you have to give the permutations of every equivalent of each character in a ...
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Producing residues of combinatorics on strings

Basically, this code does multiplication of chosen operations. ...
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Generating all unique permutations of a string

Here is a plan for generating the permutations of S: For each item x in S, recursively generate the sequence of permutations of S - x, and adjoin x to the front of each one. This yields, for each ...
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All permutations of integer vector

I have spent a decent amount of (waaay too much) time trying to write the below function and get my head around recursion. The aim was to return all permutations of an int vector (assuming no ...
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All combination of character alphabet

I write this code to find all combination of an alphabet z={A,B,C...N}. In DNA case,we use z={A,C,T,G},then the function Words and ...
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Generalizing a choose operation

Consider the following piece of code. ...
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Subset sum simple iterative implementation

Here is the simplest iterative implementation of Subset sum problem that I could come up with1, as a follow up to this recursive implementation of the same problem: ...
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Subset sum problem implementation

Here is a recursive implementation of the Subset sum problem: ...
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Iterative implementation of K of N variations

Objective: Print all combinations with repetition of k elements out of a set of n elements. ...
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Compute the mean, variance and standard deviation of all pairs, triplets and sets of four

My code sample for finding the mean for the case of pairs is: ...
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Calculating how similar two objects are according to a database

I want to calculate how similar two objects are according to a database. However the code is very slow; it takes around 2 minutes to analyze just 3 objects. How can I speed it up? I have tried to ...
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Using brute force to do large scale permutations and combinations

My question is the following math question asked on the Mathematics stack page. I was looking for a theoretical answer to this problem. But since I was not able to find one, I coded a brute force ...
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Efficient String permutations calculation in Java

In trying to compute permutations of a given String, what can I do to further improve the code below for memory and/or time efficiency? ...
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Pascal's triangle with libgmp and pthread in C

I have written a program to generate a pascal triangle of predefined size. Code ...
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Shortest code to generate a full mesh of elements

I am trying to find the shortest code that generates a full mesh of the elements fed into it in graphviz format e.g. the full mesh of [0, 1, 2] is: 2 -> 0 2 -> 1 1 -> 0 I have the code below and I ...
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Recursively generate combinations while using Boost Coroutines

I've tried out implementing a combination generator using boost coroutines. It accepts an array of possible values and generates one array at a time for each combination. As a limitation, it only ...
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Permutation index Python

Here is my Python code for finding the permutation index of a given digits and a target number. And by permutation index I mean, for example, given digits ...
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Calculate and plot expected value involving summations and products

I wrote a code to calculate a series of summations and products for a maths assignment I'm doing. The equation is shown below. $$E(\sigma)=[1-(P(\text{$1^{st}$ rejects}) \times P(\text{$2^{nd}$ ...
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Generate all permutations in Clojure

Given a set, generate all permutations: (permutations #{1 4 5}) => ((5 4 1) (4 5 1) (5 1 4) (1 5 4) (4 1 5) (1 4 5)) Here's what I cobbled together: ...
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Comparing algorithms for computing binomial coefficients in Java

I have these 3 different algorithms for computing binomial coefficients (I also had the 4th recursive one, yet I discarded it since it is super slow). The first uses the factorial formula, the second ...
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Generating vertices of the rectified hypercube

The following piece of code generates the vertices of the rectified hypercube in arbitrary dimensions. The 3D case of the rectified hypercube is a cuboctahedron with 12 vertices (±1,±1,0), (±1,0,±1), (...
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Iterative solution for generating all permutations of a string

I know the runtime for generating all permutations is supposed to be \$O(n!)\$. I'm not sure if the code I wrote for it runs in \$O(n!)\$ though. I'm having trouble analyzing its runtime. The ...
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Permutations part two

This is a follow up from this question. The goal is to make some function that can return the number of possible permutations with repetitions. As Gareth pointed out there is a nice formula for this ...
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Counting permutations without repetitions for a number or a string

Can I make the following code faster with minor modifications? It times out on CodeWars website. ...
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Computation of product of permutations

Given a graph \$G = (V,E)\$ with a unique labeling of each vertex, let the transposition \$(i,j)\$ (where \$i,j\$ are the labels on adjacent vertices) represent selecting an edge and swapping the ...
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Find all distinct combinations of letters in a string

I've been preparing for interviews and picking up modern C++. A recent prep question I did was to find all combinations (or distinct subsets) of letters from a string. E.g. ...
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Form every unique combination of the items of a list of lists

I've tried looking some stuff up. I thought it was transposition first, but looking at this, that's not exactly it. I hacked this code together in about 3 hours, stopping frequently due to ...
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Give the variable length permutations (combinations) of a set of strings

This code is a proof-of-concept which I intend to convert into a static utility / helper class. I'm looking at this review from a structure or performance viewpoint. Small detail such as whether it ...
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Summative Pattern

While playing around with J (link), I found that you can create a sequence of shape N0 N1 ... NK with i. taking a list as its ...
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3D Bin Packing using Java

This is a follow up question to 3D bin packing in Java ...
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all combinations of all sizes less than N

I want to generate all possible combinations (without duplicates) of all sizes less or equal than \$N\$, so for example if \$N=3\$ I want to generate the following \$\{1\},\{2\},\{3\}, \{1,2\},\{1,3\},...
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Permutations with repetitions algorithm in R

Given a string of length n, print all permutation of the given string. The code bellow generates all permutations (with repetitions) for the given string and stores them in object ...
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3D bin packing in Java

I made some changes to the first code here I wrote and I want to know which one is more correct logically (before the changes or after the changes). It's really hard to manually test these kind of ...
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3D bin packing algorithm using Java?

I wrote a 3D bin packing algorithm but I am still not sure if it is correct or not. I did not follow any code or pseudo-code that's why I would like to know if it is an efficient algorithm for the 3D ...
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Finding all contiguous sublists such that each member appears an even number of times

The program needs to find all contiguous sublists of numbers where the number of occurrences of every member in the contiguous sublist is divisible by 2. The first line of input is N (the number of ...
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Java 8 Stream to produce all permutations of an array using recursion

I want to write a class that returns a Stream of permutations of an int[]. ...
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Pizza Hut math problem #1 in Haskell

I'm currently attempting to learn Haskell after a fair history of imperative programming. When I saw the Pizza Hut Pi Day math problems, I thought the first one would be a good candidate for my ...
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Finding Kth Permutation Sequence

I have written a program to display the kth permutation sequence of a string made up of letters 'O' and 'Z' . I tried optimizing it but my code have not passed test cases due to timeout issues.Looking ...
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Characters set permutations with repetitions

The code bellow generates all the permutation(with repetitions) for given character set. Is there any better(simpler, more performant) way to do that? ...
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Finding ways to achieve a target sum using recursion

I need your review and suggestions how to make this code better. I'm just learning recursion and sure that this solution is not ideal. Question: Write a function that given an input array of ...
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Korean word segmentation using frequency heuristic

This a continuation of a previous question. I want to thank Joe Wallis for his help with increasing the readability of my code. Although the changes made by Joe Wallis did increase the speed of the ...
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Round Robin Tournament

RoundRobin is an implementation of the Round-robin style tournament: ...
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Making the same amount from different combinations of coins (top-down approach)

I was reading a typical interview question found here. Given an amount and a list of denominations, count the number of possible ...
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Improving Speeds of Tokenisation of large word list for distinct combinations

I'm having trouble with a current algorithm I'm writing that takes a corpa, a list of characters in sets (1 one or larger) with a frequency number attached to it. Against another list of character ...
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All possible ways of merging two lists while keeping their order

I am writing a function gives all possible ways of merging two ordered lists such that in the merged list, the elements are still ordered according to the elements in their respective starting list. ...
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An iterator returning all possible partitions of a list in Java

Given a list of \$n\$ objects and an integer \$k \in \{ 1, 2, \dots, n \}\$, this iterator generates all possible ways of partitioning the elements in the list into exactly \$k\$ disjoint, non-empty ...