From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2008-12-10T02:33:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Help on algorythm

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:44:23 -0500, Helder Oliveira wrote:

> Guys i have been trying to make this algorythm but with no sucess, can
> you help me out ?
> 
> The problem is the follow
> 
> for the following numberset like 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 i need to
> take all the  five number combinations, six number combinations and the
> seven number combinations, this cant be "hardcoded", this need to be
> flexible because at any time i may need all the 3 number combinations
> and later i may need numbersets of 15 or even more.
> 
> Need a little help with this guys :)
> 
> 
> Note: this is not for a school work or project :)

In Ruby 1.8.7

numberset=(1..12).to_a

(5..7).each do |combination_size|
  numberset.combination(combination_size).do_something_with_it
end



-- 
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/