Re: [Tutor] permutations, patterns, and probability

2005-02-01 Thread Kent Johnson
kevin parks wrote: Tremendously helpful One question though. How can i pluck a unique item from my exhaustive list of permutations without repeats making sure that each one is used once? Like filling a bag, shaking it, and then picking from the bag and removing that item from the bag so it i

Re: [Tutor] permutations, patterns, and probability

2005-02-01 Thread kevin parks
Tremendously helpful One question though. How can i pluck a unique item from my exhaustive list of permutations without repeats making sure that each one is used once? Like filling a bag, shaking it, and then picking from the bag and removing that item from the bag so it isn't used again...

Re: [Tutor] permutations, patterns, and probability

2005-02-01 Thread Kent Johnson
kevin parks wrote: Greetings, I am working on a program to produce patterns. What would like is for it to exhaustively produce all possible permutations of a sequence of items but for each permutation produce variations, and also a sort of stutter based on probability / weighted randomess. Let

[Tutor] permutations, patterns, and probability

2005-02-01 Thread kevin parks
Greetings, I am working on a program to produce patterns. What would like is for it to exhaustively produce all possible permutations of a sequence of items but for each permutation produce variations, and also a sort of stutter based on probability / weighted randomess. Let us say we have til