----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Trebilcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Perl Beginners" <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Monday, October 6, 2008 7:57:23 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: combinations
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 12:37 PM To: Perl Beginners Cc: Randal L. Schwartz; Mr. Shawn H. Corey Subject: Re: combinations What are the real-world problems that are solved using a list of combinations of sets of items? Rob -- I can come up with one example where this might be interesting. Imagine you are a software tester and were tasked with identifying all potential variable combinations that needed to be covered/tested. Risk mitigation, dontchaknow. This conversation could be one way where this problem is solved. Personally, I'm lazy (within reason). http://www.satisfice.com/tools.shtml Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ Perhaps when one wants to simulate a particular distribution. One stage would be knowing the combinations. Another stage might be assigning weights to the combinations. A next step might be modeling the distribution(s). A practical example might be a machine shop (how does one assign tasks to finite resources). Understanding combinations is interesting, but limiting...often the "mere" task of listing the combinations leads to combinatorial explosion. -- sg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
