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1v1v1 Round Robin Schedule; How many possibilities? How to generate?
I am trying to create a round-robin bracket generator for a game where each match contains three teams competing against each other (1v1v1) given the teams, rounds, and rooms in Python. I don't ...
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Is there an efficient way to loop through this problem? [closed]
So I saw this very interesting problem. Let's say you have a length of 2, and a base length of 5
l = 2, b = 5
this would be translated to :
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Get all the methods to break 100% into certain number of parts?
Being straight about the question, for a program I'm writing, I need to divide 100% into 5 parts. In my program, percentages incremented/decremented by 10%. So I can express my requirement in the ...
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Can we find a proper $\phi$ so that maps each interval to its center?
For a compact interval $[0,1]$, we divide it into $N^{1/3}$ subintervals with length $N^{-1/3}$. Define a map $\phi: [0,1]\mapsto [0,1]$ maps each subintervals to its center.
For example, let $X\sim ...
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Algorithm to compute monomial coefficients from Vieta's Formulas
Let's say I know the $N$ roots $\boldsymbol r$ of a polynomial $p_N(x)$ and I want to compute the coefficients $\boldsymbol \alpha $ of the representation in monomials, i.e.,
$$p_N(x) = \sum_{j=0}^N \...
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Algorithm to derive possible combinations of a set e.g., $A = [1, 2, 3, 4]$ and $k = 3$ and $L = [[1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 4], [1, 3, 4], [2, 3, 4]]$
Given a set of numbers A and an integer k, I want to derive a list of sets L such that all the sets in L are the distinct combinations of the elements in A picking k at a time.
For example: $A = \{1, ...
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Optimal Card Game Schedule
I have the responsibility of creating a schedule for a card game league. While creating the schedule, the following problem has arisen...
Let $n,g,s \in \mathbb{N+}$ where $s \leq n$.
Let $P = \{1, 2, ...
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Looking for an algorithm
I have a very long "list" of numbers ( maybe thousands ) which may be grouped, by sum into "n" groups. The number of groups and values are given. For example:
List of numbers: [1, ...
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How do I find unique rearrangements when given items & the item distributions?
I'm not sure what this type of question is called, but this what I'm trying to solve:
I own
3 hats
1 hat is red
2 hats are blue
4 shirts
1 shirt is red
1 shirt is blue
2 shirts are green
5 pairs ...
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How many variatons of winners are there in 15 1vs1 matchs
I am trying to find a program or some way to show me every variation of winners from just 5 matchs of 1vs1.
I think there should be 900 variation i just need a way to see it all written down ..
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Math behind this SQL problem
I have the following 'sorted by row' lists (2nd column), in which every row produces an output (3rd column, and 4th column). This output has been found without using formulas and it represents a ...
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Finding simple algorithm to combine students into different groups
I'd like to find an algorithm as simple as possible to solve the problem below.
The same seven students will each day be divided and meet into two groups, one with four students and one with three. ...
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Arranging 3 types of balls with given conditions.
There are 3 types of balls black, white and green. Find the number of ways of arranging $n$ such balls such that
black, white adjacent pairs occur $a$ times,
black, green adjacent pairs occur $b$ ...
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Efficiently modify the combined probability of many independent events when variable values change
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Let $C_1$ and $C_2$ be two events that are independent and not mutually exclusive that occur with different probabilities $p_1$ and $p_2$.
For these two events, I understand that:
$$ P(C_1 \...
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What's the number of decibinary numbers that evaluate to given decimal number?
Let's define a decibinary number system, where each bit (or digit) can range from $0$ to $9$, but it's place value corresponds to the one in the binary system. For example:
$$(2020)_{decibinary} = 2 \...
