Combinations
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
Given non-negative integers m and n, generate all size m combinations of the integers from 0 to n-1 in sorted order (each combination is sorted and the entire table is sorted).
For example, 3 comb 5 is
0 1 2 0 1 3 0 1 4 0 2 3 0 2 4 0 3 4 1 2 3 1 2 4 1 3 4 2 3 4
If it is more "natural" in your language to start counting from 1 instead of 0 the combinations can be of the integers from 1 to n.
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Haskell
It's more natural to extend the task to all (ordered) sublists of size m of a list.
Straightforward, unoptimized implementation with divide-and-conquer:
comb :: Int -> [a] -> [[a]] comb 0 _ = [[]] comb _ [] = [] comb m (x:xs) = comb m xs ++ map (x:) (comb (m-1) xs)
In the induction step, either x is not in the result and the recursion proceeds with the rest of the list xs, or it is in the result and then we only need m-1 elements.
To generate combinations of integers between 0 and n-1, use
comb0 m n = comb m [0..n-1]
Similar, for integers between 1 and n, use
comb1 m n = comb m [1..n]
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Iteration
comb1=: 4 : 0
c=. 1 {.~ - d=. 1+y-x
z=. i.1 0
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Recursion
comb=: 4 : 0 M. if. (x>:y)+.0=x do. i.(x<:y),x else. (0,.x comb&.<: y),1+x comb y-1 end. )
The M. uses memoization which greatly reduces the running time.
Perl
This is an example of a library. You may see a list of other libraries used on Rosetta Code at Category:Solutions by Library.
use Math::Combinatorics;
@n = (0 .. 4);
print join("\n", map { join(" ", @{$_}) } combine(3, @n)), "\n";