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FUNCTIONAL PEARL: Marble mingling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2003

S. A. CURTIS
S. A. CURTIS
Affiliation:
University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK (e-mail: s.curtis@cs.stir.ac.uk) Now at: Department of Computing, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, OX33 1HX. e-mail: sharoncurtis@brookes.ac.uk
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A bag (literally and mathematically!) of marbles is deemed to be mingled if all the colours of the marbles are different. Given a positive integer $k$ and a collection of $m$ marbles, our objective is to try and extract as many mingled bags as possible from the collection, where each bag contains exactly $k$ marbles.

Type
Functional Pearls
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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , March 2006 , pp. 129 - 136
Copyright
2003 Cambridge University Press
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