LinkedHashSet and subList, getting n of collection

Question

I am trying to do a homework in math which is find a subset of collection {1,2,..,n} where n is a number given in the code, I cannot get it done with the sublist so I need to get your help with a math programming.

For example for n = 2:

[12]
[1][2]

It have 2 elements.

For example for n = 3:

[1][2][3]
[12][3]
[13][2]
[23][1]
[123]

It have 5 elements.

It have five elements.

For n = 4:

[1][2][3][4]
[12][3][4]
[13][2][4]
[14][2][3]
[23][1][4]
[24][1][3]
[34][1][2]
[12][34]
[13][24]
[14][23]
[123][4]
[124][3]
[134][2]
[234][1]
[1234]

It have 15 elements.

Do you have any ideas how to get it done?

I have tried many possibilites with LinkedHashSet and sublist inside loop but I had no clue for over 2h how to get it done, the output like this.

Is there any library in the Java to get this output? I would do that by manuall way, but there ahve to be different way.

import org.paukov.combinatorics.*;
import org.paukov.combinatorics.util.ComplexCombinationGenerator;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String args[]){

           // create a vector (A, B, B, C)
           ICombinatoricsVector<String> vector = Factory.createVector(new String[] { "1", "2", "3"});

           // Create a complex-combination generator
           Generator<ICombinatoricsVector<String>> gen = new ComplexCombinationGenerator<String>(vector, 1);
           Generator<ICombinatoricsVector<String>> gen2 = new ComplexCombinationGenerator<String>(vector, 2);
           Generator<ICombinatoricsVector<String>> gen3 = new ComplexCombinationGenerator<String>(vector, 3);
           // Iterate the combinations
           for (ICombinatoricsVector<ICombinatoricsVector<String>> comb : gen) {
                  System.out.println(ComplexCombinationGenerator.convert2String(comb) + " - " + comb);
               }
           for (ICombinatoricsVector<ICombinatoricsVector<String>> comb : gen2) {
                  System.out.println(ComplexCombinationGenerator.convert2String(comb) + " - " + comb);
               }
           for (ICombinatoricsVector<ICombinatoricsVector<String>> comb : gen3) {
                  System.out.println(ComplexCombinationGenerator.convert2String(comb) + " - " + comb);
               }

    }


}






([1, 2, 3]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([1, 2, 3], size=3)], size=1)
([1],[2, 3]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([1], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([2, 3], size=2)], size=2)
([2, 3],[1]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([2, 3], size=2), CombinatoricsVector=([1], size=1)], size=2)
([2],[1, 3]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([2], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([1, 3], size=2)], size=2)
([1, 3],[2]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([1, 3], size=2), CombinatoricsVector=([2], size=1)], size=2)
([1, 2],[3]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([1, 2], size=2), CombinatoricsVector=([3], size=1)], size=2)
([3],[1, 2]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([3], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([1, 2], size=2)], size=2)
([1],[2],[3]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([1], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([2], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([3], size=1)], size=3)
([1],[3],[2]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([1], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([3], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([2], size=1)], size=3)
([3],[1],[2]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([3], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([1], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([2], size=1)], size=3)
([3],[2],[1]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([3], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([2], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([1], size=1)], size=3)
([2],[3],[1]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([2], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([3], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([1], size=1)], size=3)
([2],[1],[3]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([2], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([1], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([3], size=1)], size=3)

Answer 1

This is combinatorics. See more information about the structure you need to understand, i.e. a permutation without repetition, also called a combination.

You might be interested in combinatoricslib, a Java library on Google Code, which you could use for your program.

You could also try to solve it without a library. That should not be too difficult. You'd need to use recursion I think.

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I tested with List partitions:

import org.paukov.combinatorics.*;
import org.paukov.combinatorics.util.ComplexCombinationGenerator;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String args[]){

        // create a vector (1, 2, 3, 4)
        ICombinatoricsVector<String> vector = Factory.createVector(new String[] { "1", "2", "3", "4" });

        // Create a complex-combination generator
        Generator<ICombinatoricsVector<String>> gen = new ComplexCombinationGenerator<String>(vector, 2);

        // Iterate the combinations
        for (ICombinatoricsVector<ICombinatoricsVector<String>> comb : gen) {
            System.out.println(ComplexCombinationGenerator.convert2String(comb) + " - " + comb);
        }
    }
}

And the result was

([1],[2, 3, 4]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([1], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([2, 3, 4], size=3)], size=2)
([2, 3, 4],[1]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([2, 3, 4], size=3), CombinatoricsVector=([1], size=1)], size=2)
([2],[1, 3, 4]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([2], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([1, 3, 4], size=3)], size=2)
([1, 3, 4],[2]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([1, 3, 4], size=3), CombinatoricsVector=([2], size=1)], size=2)
([1, 2],[3, 4]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([1, 2], size=2), CombinatoricsVector=([3, 4], size=2)], size=2)
([3, 4],[1, 2]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([3, 4], size=2), CombinatoricsVector=([1, 2], size=2)], size=2)
([3],[1, 2, 4]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([3], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([1, 2, 4], size=3)], size=2)
([1, 2, 4],[3]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([1, 2, 4], size=3), CombinatoricsVector=([3], size=1)], size=2)
([1, 3],[2, 4]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([1, 3], size=2), CombinatoricsVector=([2, 4], size=2)], size=2)
([2, 4],[1, 3]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([2, 4], size=2), CombinatoricsVector=([1, 3], size=2)], size=2)
([2, 3],[1, 4]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([2, 3], size=2), CombinatoricsVector=([1, 4], size=2)], size=2)
([1, 4],[2, 3]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([1, 4], size=2), CombinatoricsVector=([2, 3], size=2)], size=2)
([1, 2, 3],[4]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([1, 2, 3], size=3), CombinatoricsVector=([4], size=1)], size=2)
([4],[1, 2, 3]) - CombinatoricsVector=([CombinatoricsVector=([4], size=1), CombinatoricsVector=([1, 2, 3], size=3)], size=2)

I think that is what you were looking for. It needs some tweaking though (maybe ordering and adding the initial list elements like [1],[2],[3],[4]).

Answer 2

This problem can be solved using dynamic programming wherein you break a complex problem into subsets.

I think this post might be useful: Combaintions of set of numbers