Generating all possible combination of elements in a list

Mir Nazim mirnazim at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 13:51:12 EDT 2006


Paul Rubin wrote:
> > 1060! / (1060 - 96)!
>

> More than you want to think about:
>
>     import math
>
>     def logf(n):
>         """return base-10 logarithm of (n factorial)"""
>         f = 0.0
>         for x in xrange(1,n+1):
>             f += math.log(x, 10)
>         return f
>
>     print logf(1060) - logf(1060 - 96)
>
> Of course there are other ways you can calculate it, e.g.

My problem is not to calculate this number, but generate this much
number of permutations in a  fastest possible ways.

by the way,  logf(1060) - logf(1060 - 96) = 288.502297251. Do you mean
there are only 289 possible permutation if 1060 elements taken 96 at a
time. Wow it is cool.

Please correct me if I got something wrong




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