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2009/7/9 lad4bear <lad4b...@gmail.com> > > Thanks for all the help guys. > > And Geoff, sorry to be a pain but can you explain a little more fully > what you mean? > > Cheers > > Pete > > On Jul 7, 2:09 pm, Geoffrey Summerhayes <sumr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jul 6, 12:34 pm, lad4bear <lad4b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi Guys, > > > > > Here is my situation. > > > > > The set of room types available is [s, d, t]. A user specifies the > > > number of rooms required [n] and I have to generate a list of > > > permutations. > > > > > So where n=3 we get [sss, ssd, sst, sdt, std, etc] > > > > > The problem I have is that sdt and std really are the same. > > > > > How can I get an efficient list of permutations but without > > > duplicates? > > > > Easy enough, just pick elements whose index is larger > > than or equal to the last element chosen instead of picking > > from the entire set. > > > > -- > > Geoff > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
