Yes,  choice of symbols is a matter of taste or something...
Mike

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> On 18 Nov 2017, at 12:36, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, that's ascii for you - though it doesn't really matter.
> 
> Of course, if that bothers you you could replace
> a    =. a. }.~ a. i. '0'   NB. symbol list - arbitrary,  but '012...'
> with
> a=. ~.;{:@;: ::a:"1 '0',.~a.
> 
> But that's probably not worth the extra millisecond it costs.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Raul
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Erling Hellenäs
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi all!
>> 
>> I wondered what would happen when we ran out of digits.
>> 
>>   a=:14 parMD 15
>>   1{a
>> 01023456789:;<=
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Erling Hellenäs
>> 
>> 
>>> On 2017-11-17 19:14, '[email protected]' via Programming wrote:
>>> 
>>> Erling Helenas,  Raul Miller,  and others have come up with various
>>> methods to generate subsets of “restricted generating functions” (RGFs)
>>> suitable for the production of partitions of sets.  Several of these
>>> have used Ruskey’s algorithm.
>>> 
>>> I’ve found a fairly simple approach which has the benefits of (a) not
>>> being recursive,  (b) being fairly easy to understand, and (c) not
>>> generating redundant data needing later filtering.  It does,  however,
>>> use a loop,  albeit needing fewer loops than the final number of rows,
>>> ie RGFs .
>>> 
>>> It saves a fair amount of space by using a character array of symbols
>>> rather than integers to represent the RGFs.  A character string serves
>>> equally as well as an integer vector as left argument to </. for the
>>> generation of boxed partitions.
>>> 
>>> Key features,  which might be improved upon, include the local verb
>>> “ki” which yields the index of that element in an RGF which needs to be
>>> incremented in generating the next RGF,  and a number of small look-up
>>> mini-arrays useful in finding the next appropriate few RGFs.
>>> 
>>> Its performance compares favourably with other recent offerings.
>>> 
>>> There is one main verb,  “parMD”,  and a helper verb,  “makeblock”,
>>> which constructs one of the look-up arrays.
>>> 
>>> Here it is;  look out for line-wraps,  though it looks ok this end! :-
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ==========================================================================================
>>> NB. produce a table of "restricted growth functions" (rgf) (strings of
>>> symbols) subject to
>>> NB. requirement that each "function" (or string) includes at least one
>>> instance of each symbol
>>> NB. eg 001100 is an rgf,  but if all the symbols '012' are required,
>>> it's not suitable here
>>> NB. eg an rgf such as 001213 is a suitable equivalent to
>>> NB. |01|24|3|5|,  a 4-partition for 6 elements
>>> 
>>> NB. Any symbols may be used,  but they are subject to an implicit or
>>> explicit ordering.
>>> 
>>> parMD =: 3 : 0
>>> y parMD~ <:#y
>>> :
>>> k    =. <: x
>>> NB. starting/current row
>>> if. 1 = #y do.
>>>    list =. ,: cur =. (-y){.i.x
>>> else.    NB. Admit a starting row (of integers, not symbols) other than
>>> 0 0 0 1 2 ...
>>>          NB. NB. not tested here for validity!!!
>>>    list =. ,: cur =. y
>>> end.
>>> n    =. #cur
>>> a    =. a. }.~ a. i. '0'   NB. symbol list - arbitrary,  but '012...'
>>> here
>>> if. x > n do.         NB. special-case impossible partitions
>>>    ' '$~ 0, n
>>> elseif. x = 1 do.     NB. special-case 1-partition
>>>    ,: n#{.a
>>> elseif. x = 2 do.     NB. special-case 2-partition
>>>    a{~ (n#2) #: }. i. 2 ^ n-1
>>> elseif. x = n do.     NB. special-case n-partition
>>>    ,: n{.a
>>> elseif. 1     do.
>>> NB.  I use the term k-partition, below, loosely - it should be x-
>>> partition or (k+1)-partn.
>>> list =. a {~ list     NB.  output as char array,  offset so that 0 1 2
>>> ... <==> '012...'
>>> NB. end  =. k <. i. n NB.  preset last row if required for stopping
>>> condition
>>> incr =. =/~ i.n       NB.  look-up array for incrementing i{cur
>>> blnk =. +/\ incr      NB.  look-up array for blanking all elements
>>> after i{cur
>>> block=. x makeblock n NB.  look-up array for forcing "new" rows to be k-
>>> partition equivalents.
>>> ki   =. >:@i:&1@:(}. < k <. >:@:(>./\)@:}:)   NB. restricted growth
>>> function index finder,
>>>                                               NB. modified for
>>> limitation to 1+k symbols
>>> while. n | i =. ki cur do.  NB. test new index - stop if = n
>>>                       NB. one of several possible stopping conditions -
>>> could test cur -: end
>>>    new   =. (i{incr) + cur*i{blnk  NB. next suitable "restricted growth
>>> function"
>>>    mx    =. >./ new   NB. ALL values 0 1 2 ... k MUST appear for a k-
>>> partition
>>> NB. Adjust "new" if not already a k-partition equivalent,  and expand
>>> to several rows
>>>    new   =. new +"1 >mx { block
>>> NB.  eg 00101000 (invalid k-part if x>2) becomes 00101023, 00101123 if
>>> (and only if) x = 4
>>>    list  =. list, new { a
>>>    cur   =. {: new
>>> end.
>>> list
>>> end.
>>> )
>>> 
>>> NB. assemble look-up array of blocks
>>> NB. eg
>>> NB.    4 makeblock 5
>>> NB. +---------+---------+---------+---------+
>>> NB. |0 0 1 2 3|0 0 0 2 3|0 0 0 0 3|0 0 0 0 0|
>>> NB. |         |0 0 1 2 3|0 0 0 1 3|0 0 0 0 1|
>>> NB. |         |         |0 0 0 2 3|0 0 0 0 2|
>>> NB. |         |         |         |0 0 0 0 3|
>>> NB. +---------+---------+---------+---------+
>>> makeblock =: 3 : 0
>>> makeblock/ y
>>> :
>>> NB. a work-a-day method,  not a smart implementation!
>>> m  =. 0
>>> b  =. ''
>>> i  =. i. x
>>> while. x >: m =. >: m do.
>>>    b =. b, < (i.m),. m#,: i =. }. i
>>> end.
>>> (-y){."1 each b
>>> )
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ==========================================================================================
>>> 
>>> eg - generate RGFs suitable for 4-partitions of 5 elements:
>>>    parMD/ 4 5
>>> 00123
>>> 01023
>>> 01123
>>> 01203
>>> 01213
>>> 01223
>>> 01230
>>> 01231
>>> 01232
>>> 01233
>>> 
>>>    (parMD/ 4 5)</."1 i.5
>>> +---+---+---+---+
>>> |0 1|2  |3  |4  |
>>> +---+---+---+---+
>>> |0 2|1  |3  |4  |
>>> +---+---+---+---+
>>> |0  |1 2|3  |4  |
>>> +---+---+---+---+
>>> |0 3|1  |2  |4  |
>>> +---+---+---+---+
>>> |0  |1 3|2  |4  |
>>> +---+---+---+---+
>>> |0  |1  |2 3|4  |
>>> +---+---+---+---+
>>> |0 4|1  |2  |3  |
>>> +---+---+---+---+
>>> |0  |1 4|2  |3  |
>>> +---+---+---+---+
>>> |0  |1  |2 4|3  |
>>> +---+---+---+---+
>>> |0  |1  |2  |3 4|
>>> +---+---+---+---+
>>> 
>>> That's all for now!
>>> Mike
>>> 
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