That is a certain type of partition. There are ways to calculate them.
]]>I am new here.Really impressed with the combinations and permutations calculator. Would it be possible for someone to add a rule where if the elements are integers then results are only shown if the sum of the combinations/permutations add up to a given number.
Thanks bin anticipation.
Best regards,
dodgyg1
]]>You can see there that a permutations of n elements always contains n elements, and not less.
"permutations and combinations" refers to two related problems, both counting possibilities to select k distinct elements from a set of n elements, where for k-permutations the order of selection is taken into account, but for k-combinations it is ignored.
k can be less than n.
If egf's solve permutation problems and they solve this one is it not likely that this is a permutation problem?
If you need to see how to solve them please ask the question in Help Me. I will show you.
]]>You can call them variations and still use EGFs. I just cannot remember how to do that.
]]>Post #17 is similar to a mississippi problem, which is definitely a permutation.
I can't seem to calculate those using GFs.
Well of course you can not if you call it a variation. There are ogf's for combinations and egf's for permutations.
]]>I can't seem to calculate those using GFs.
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You will notice that in this exact type of problem he calls it an arrangement or permutation.
Anyways, it is calculated in the same way.
]]>As you were taught, you try not to work on a problem that you do not already know the answer to. Remember back engineering? You work from the answer to the question, filling in the details.
Normally to do that I would have just counted them up first. But here MIF already does that with his program so you should use what to get the answer?
GF's of course!
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