On 9/12/2016 8:01 PM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 07:50:50PM +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
To restate the problem: Find a mapping between integers and injective functions from N to X up to a permutation of N.
In this case, find a mapping between integers and an injective functions from 18 to 36.
Sage (open source, sagemath.org) can do at least parts of what you are asking. Not sure I get the question about injective function, but AFAICT treating the permutation as nonnegative integer in binary will do.
Example sage session:
sage: l=[0]*2+[1]*2 sage: pe=Permutations(l) sage: pe.cardinality() 6 sage: pe[0] [0, 0, 1, 1] sage: for p in pe: print p [0, 0, 1, 1] #...more
Found the the solution. Combinatorial number system. Suppose we have k cards, any one of which can be white or red, but which are otherwise indistinguishable and interchangeable. Combinatorial number system gives us a one to one mapping between integers, and all possible subsets of an n element set. Now I want a mapping between integers and all possible m element subsets of an n element set, but for m approximating n/2 the mapping is dense enough to be useful.