Re: [R] Help With Permutations

2008-11-24 Thread jim holtman
You can also add to the fortune is that there are "approximately" 10^24 grains of sands on the earth. If every one could store a permutation, you are still way short of the storage that you would need. On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Stefan Grosse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> To an adequate

Re: [R] Help With Permutations

2008-11-24 Thread Stefan Grosse
> To an adequate approximation there are 10^158 of them. > Simply to obtain them all (at a rate of 10^10 per second, which is > faster than the CPU frequency of most desktop computers) would take > 10^148 seconds, or slightly longer than 3*(10^140) years. > > Current estimates of the age of the Un

Re: [R] Help With Permutations

2008-11-24 Thread Ted Harding
On 24-Nov-08 13:36:31, Mulazzani Fabio (Student Com06) wrote: > I have a problem with permutations functions in R > I just started using R so maybe it is an easy question > I need to obtain all the 9.somthingExp 157 permutations that can be > given from the number from 1 to 100 > > I wrote the fol

[R] Help With Permutations

2008-11-24 Thread Mulazzani Fabio (Student Com06)
I have a problem with permutations functions in R I just started using R so maybe it is an easy question I need to obtain all the 9.somthingExp 157 permutations that can be given from the number from 1 to 100 I wrote the following commands: > library(gregmisc) >options(expressions=1e5)