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Subject: Re: Generation of permutations
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Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> Reinert Korsnes <reinert.korsnes@chello.no> wrote in message news:<aajce7$7jb$1@snipp.uninett.no>...
> > Are there any good (Ada95) packages for generation of permutations
> > (of elements in array) ?
> 
> Sadly, that doesn't come up much...outside of homework assignments. ;-)
> 
> Are you writing a bogosort?

If you want to roll your own code then you should look at the
latest fascicle preprint from Knuth Vol. 4 "Generating Permutations"
http:sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc2b.ps.gz

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Mark Biggar
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