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Re: permutation generator in C

From	Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: permutation generator in C
Date	2015-05-15 08:26 -0700
Organization	None to speak of
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asetofsymbols@gmail.com writes:
> Ben wrote:"
> Yes, but it's just a typo.  The line should be 
>
>   exch(N % 2 ? 1 : n, N); 
>
> In previous algorithms the author used c as a counter, so this was a 
> cut-and-paste typo."
>
> Ok it is as above
[...]

Is there some reason that you're unable or unwilling to quote
properly?

By quoting previous articles using quotation marks rather than
the conventional "> " at the beginning of each line, you make
your articles unnecessarily difficult to read.  The only division
between Ben's quoted text and your new text is a single double-quote
character at the end of a line -- which could easily appear in the
text itself.

You seem to be posting via Google Groups which, for all its flaws,
automatically uses proper "> " quotation indicators.  Are you
deliberately removing them?  Why?

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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permutation generator in C asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-15 02:19 -0700
  Re: permutation generator in C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-15 11:32 +0100
    Re: permutation generator in C asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-15 04:44 -0700
      Re: permutation generator in C asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-15 04:49 -0700
      Re: permutation generator in C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-15 16:21 +0100
        Re: permutation generator in C asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-15 11:44 -0700
      Re: permutation generator in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-15 08:26 -0700
  Re: permutation generator in C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-15 19:51 +0100
    Re: permutation generator in C asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-15 13:38 -0700
      Re: permutation generator in C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-15 21:48 +0100
        Re: permutation generator in C asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-15 14:05 -0700
          Re: permutation generator in C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-15 22:32 +0100
          Re: permutation generator in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-15 14:43 -0700
            Re: permutation generator in C asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-15 16:53 -0700
              Re: permutation generator in C Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-05-15 18:32 -0600
                Re: permutation generator in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-16 02:03 -0700

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