The "secret" is to avoid generating duplicates which are then removed. Partition the argument into a collection of like elements:
</.~ 0 1 2 2 ┌─┬─┬───┐ │0│1│2 2│ └─┴─┴───┘ Suppose you already have a matrix m of the "permutation with repeats" for the first two elements. m 0 1 1 0 To include the next set of elements s (the 2 2 in this case), the resultant matrix z would have 4 columns. Rows of z are distinguished by which columns would have s. The possible columns are (#s) comb (#s)+{:$m: comb=: 4 : 0 k=. i.>:d=.y-x z=. (d$<i.0 0),<i.1 0 for. i.x do. z=. k ,.&.> ,&.>/\. >:&.> z end. ; z ) (#s) comb (#s)+{:$m 0 1 0 2 0 3 1 2 1 3 2 3 From these column indices generate the z: 0 1 2 2 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 2 2 0 2 1 2 1 2 0 0 3 2 0 1 2 2 1 0 2 1 2 0 2 2 1 1 2 2 0 1 3 0 2 1 2 1 2 0 2 2 3 0 1 2 2 1 0 2 2 The procedure generalizes if the there are no duplicates, resulting in the ordinary matrix of permutations. The details of implementing this algorithm are left as an exercise for the reader. :-) On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:00 PM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming < programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote: > archive or wiki did not help, but perhaps I searched wrong > > perm =: i.@! A. i. > > ~.@({~ [: perm #) 1 1 2 2 > 1 1 2 2 > 1 2 1 2 > 1 2 2 1 > 2 1 1 2 > 2 1 2 1 > 2 2 1 1 > > while that is the answer I want, and is short and elegant, it grows very > innefficient as the length of the argument grows even if the answer is a > short list. > > Is there an algorithm that can produce these "permutations with repeats" > without the intermediate full permutation list? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm