:-) I don't suppose you have an equally elegant solution to the scores for a NFL game, where the units can be 1,2,3,6, assuming that each team could score a total of say, 35 points. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 21:26, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>wrote:
"John" == John Toohey <jt@parspro.com> writes:
John> Thank you, duly chastened. I did know the formulae for P and C, but didn't John> know how to add the repetitions. My original code was :- John> |c| John> c := SortedCollection new. John> c add: '0, 0'; add:'1, 1'; add: '2, 2'; add:'3, 3'; add: '4, 4'. John> (0 to: 4) combinations: 2 atATimeDo:[:each | c add: each asCommaString. c John> add:( each reverse) asCommaString].
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