Re: Speeding up permutations generation

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From	Abhiram R <abhi.darkness@gmail.com>
Date	2015-03-06 13:54 +0530
Subject	Re: Speeding up permutations generation
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> A list of 100 elements has approximately 9.33 x 10**157 permutations.
> If you could somehow generate one permutation every yoctosecond,
> exhausting them would still take more than a hundred orders of
> magnitude longer than the age of the universe.
> --
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>

True that :D I may have exaggerated on the number. Let's consider
something more practically manageable => 50 elements with a 50!
permutation.
Is there a solution now?


-Abhiram.R
*~Never give up*

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