Had to be a better way,  though its performance isn’t crucial, of course.
Thanks, 
Mike

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> On 18 Nov 2017, at 01:07, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>   blockmake=: (-@[ {."1&.> ] <@({.,"0 1 }.)"0 1~ 1+])i.
>   (5 blockmake 4) -: 4 makeblock 5
> 1
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> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Raul
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 1:14 PM, '[email protected]' via
> Programming <[email protected]> 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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