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Subject: generate combination set

From: Aimin Yan

Date: 15 Nov, 2007 04:44:59

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I have a set data={A B C D E F G H}
I want to choose 3 from 8, that is to generate the
combination set like this
combination set={ABC ABD ....}
Does anyone how to do in matalb

thanks,

Aimin

Subject: generate combination set

From: Dan Haeg

Date: 15 Nov, 2007 05:18:09

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"Aimin Yan" <aiminy@iastate.edu> wrote in message
<fhgisb$us$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> I have a set data={A B C D E F G H}
> I want to choose 3 from 8, that is to generate the
> combination set like this
> combination set={ABC ABD ....}
> Does anyone how to do in matalb
>
> thanks,
>
> Aimin

Is this what you want?

ind=nchoosek(1:8,3);
data={'A' 'B' 'C' 'D' 'E' 'F' 'G' 'H'}
set=data(ind);

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