package com.jwetherell.algorithms.mathematics;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
/**
* In mathematics, the notion of permutation relates to the act of arranging all the members of a set into some sequence
* or order, or if the set is already ordered, rearranging (reordering) its elements, a process called permuting.
*
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation
*
* @author Justin Wetherell
* @author Lucjan Roslanowski
*/
public class Permutations {
private Permutations() { }
/**
* N! permutation of the characters in the string (in order)
*/
public static String[] permutations(String stringToGeneratePermutationsFrom) {
final int size = numberOfPermutations(stringToGeneratePermutationsFrom.length());
final String[] list = new String[size];
final char[] prefix = new char[0];
final char[] chars = stringToGeneratePermutationsFrom.toCharArray();
permutations(list, 0, prefix, chars, 0, chars.length);
return list;
}
private static final int numberOfPermutations(int N) {
// factorial
int result = N;
while (N > 1)
result *= --N;
return result;
}
private static final int permutations(String[] list, int index, char[] prefix, char[] remaining, int prefixLength, int remainingLength) {
final int N = remainingLength-prefixLength;
if (N == 0) {
list[index]=new String(prefix);
index++;
} else {
for (int i=0; i
* int numbers[] = {7,5,3};
* LinkedList> result = getAllPermutations(numbers);
*/
public static final List> getAllPermutations(final N[] numbers){
final List> result = new LinkedList>();
return getAllPermutations(numbers, result);
}
private static final List> getAllPermutations(final N[] numbers, List> result){
//numbers given in an array are also a permutation
LinkedList firstPermutation = new LinkedList();
for (N el : numbers)
firstPermutation.add(el);
result.add(firstPermutation);
//let's permute all elements in array starting from index 0
return permute(numbers, 0, result);
}
private static final List> permute(final N[] numbers, int currentElementIndex, List> result){
if(currentElementIndex == numbers.length - 1)
return result;
for(int i = currentElementIndex; i < numbers.length; ++i){
//swapping two elements
N temp = numbers[i];
numbers[i] = numbers[currentElementIndex];
numbers[currentElementIndex] = temp;
permute(numbers, currentElementIndex + 1,result);
//all next permutation found
if(i != currentElementIndex){
LinkedList nextPermutation = new LinkedList();
for(int j = 0; j < numbers.length; j++)
nextPermutation.add(numbers[j]);
result.add(nextPermutation);
}
//swapping back two elements
temp = numbers[i];
numbers[i] = numbers[currentElementIndex];
numbers[currentElementIndex] = temp;
}
return result;
}
}