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Re^6: Faster alternative to Math::Combinatorics

by AppleFritter (Vicar)
on Sep 01, 2017 at 18:27 UTC ( #1198547=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^5: Faster alternative to Math::Combinatorics
in thread Faster alternative to Math::Combinatorics

Ah, yes, thanks. Wikipedia writes:

A k-combination with repetitions, or k-multicombination, or multisubset of size k from a set S is given by a sequence of k not necessarily distinct elements of S, where order is not taken into account: two sequences of which one can be obtained from the other by permuting the terms define the same multiset. In other words, the number of ways to sample k elements from a set of n elements allowing for duplicates (i.e., with replacement) but disregarding different orderings (e.g. {2,1,2} = {1,2,2}).

So it seems that they're called "multicombinations" or "multisubsets", and I wasn't too far off the mark when talking about multisets.

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