Possibilites??

Reply #4

Greenfox — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 02:17:59 GMT

Hello cottoneyedjoe,

You're looking at it as combinations of jut the set numbers in different positions. Like a mix and match situation. I'm needing to keep the 1 or 2 only as the first set, 3 or 4 as the second and 5 or 6 ass the third and how many combinations that way. For 9 sets.

1 3 5 1 3 5 1 3 5

1 3 5 1 3 5 1 3 6

1 3 5 1 3 6 1 3 6 and so on.

What I'm looking for and using this for isn't for like sets to play. Which I guess this could be used for something like that. The numb... [ More ]

Reply #3

Greenfox — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 01:56:59 GMT

Hello Murgatroyd,

You are correct. There are only 2 possible options for each of the three sets. Only one digit per set can be used. Either the 1 or the 2 in the first set, 3 or 4 for the second and 5 or 6 for the third.

There are three sets of either 1 or 2, three of either 3 or 4 and three of 5 or 6.

So there are 9 sets total with 2 possible options for each set. So yes, if there was one set of 12, 34, 56 there would be 8 options. Some lines will have to be the same to get all the pos... [ More ]

Reply #2

cottoneyedjoe — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 01:02:38 GMT

If you're just talking about singles, there are only 48 pick-3 numbers that fit your conditions following the examples you gave:

135 153 315 351 513 531

235 253 325 352 523 532

145 154 415 451 514 541

245 254 425 452 524 542

136 163 316 361 613 631

236 263 326 362 623 632

146 164 416 461 614 641

246 264 426 462 624 642

If you include doubles and triples restricting yourself to (1 or 2), (3 or 4), (5 or 6) then there are 78 more numbers.

I'm not sure how you ca... [ More ]

Reply #1

Murgatroyd — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 00:58:32 GMT

It's not entirely clear what you're doing here, but I'll give it a shot.

It looks like you're generating three lines, each line having three digits, each digit selected from two possibilities. If so, then each line has 2^3=8 possible values, and there are 8^3=512 possible three-line combinations. That assumes that you're allowing multiple lines to be the same - if not, it's 8*7*6=336.

Possibilites??

Greenfox — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 23:20:13 GMT

I'm thinking I'm correct with this, but can be wrong. Looking for a second opinion. The ole' noggin is kinda fuzzy right now and not working like it should.

I'm looking for all possible combinations of a set of numbers.

Say I have 1-2, 3-4, 5-6.

But it will be:

1-2, 3-4, 5-6

1-2, 3-4, 5-6

1-2, 3-4, 5-6

I can only use either the 1 or 2 , the 3 or the 4, and the 5 or 6 for each set.

Like:

135

236

145.

I'm coming up with 512 sets of combinations. Sounds pret... [ More ]