The Old New Thing

Enumerating the ways of choosing teams in a group of players

August 4, 2014 Aug 4, 2014 08/4/14

Raymond Chen

Suppose you have a bunch of people, and you want to break them up into m teams of size n. (Therefore you have a total of nm people.) Today's Little Program will enumerate the ways this can be done. Formally, let's say that you have a collection of size nm, and you want to enumerate the ways of partitioning the collection into m subsets, ...