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From: Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: All Possible Combinations
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 02:09:56 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <778c22e3-3233-4cec-899e-c9f77208155a@z14g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> (raw)

Hey!

I want a function that generates all possible combinations (ordering)
of the elements in a list (or sequence if possible). Here is my
mockup:

(defun all-combinations (n)
  "Generate a listing of all the possible combinations of the
elements in the sequence N. Time-Complexity is N!"
  (let (all)
    all))

For example (all-combinations '(a b c)) should return '((a b c) (a c
b) (b a c) (b c a) (c a b) (c b a))

Has somebody written such a function, preferrably in an iterative
rather than recursive way.

Thanks in advance,
Nordlöw


             reply	other threads:[~2009-06-03  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-03  9:09 Nordlöw [this message]
2009-06-03  9:53 ` All Possible Combinations Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-06-03 13:36   ` B. T. Raven
2009-06-03  9:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-06-03 18:50 ` Marc Tfardy
2009-06-04  6:08   ` Nordlöw
2009-06-04  7:20     ` Marc Tfardy
2009-06-04 16:25       ` B. T. Raven
2009-06-05 15:49       ` Thierry Volpiatto

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