364. A Lesson In Combinatorial MathTo: The Rink <sam@rinkworks.com>
Subject: Name generator Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 22:05:37 -0400 I found your site using Google. I've read through the instructions and am afraid I still have a question. Is it possible to use your name generator to perform the simple function of providing every possible letter combination within set length limits from a given string of letters? Say the input is a fifteen letter string (with some repeated letters). Is there a way to have returned every ten letter combination of said letters, every nine letter combination, every eight letter combination, down to every three letter combination that can be derived from the input string? If this is possible, I'd be grategul if you could let me know what the right syntax would be to have the results generated. Say the input is 'abcdefghijklmno'. From: The Rink <sam@rinkworks.com> Subject: Re: Name generator Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:49:54 -0400 There is not, no. The Fantasy Name Generator wasn't really designed for that. You'll probably be hard pressed to find such a tool, too. Given 15 letters, there are 10,897,286,400 ways to arrange any 10 of them, so it would take over 100 gigabytes of data to display all of them. That's not even counting permutations of the 15 letters of any other length than 10. |
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