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In how many different ways can a group of 9 people be divided into 3 groups, with each group containing 3 people?

To divide 9 persons into 3 groups, when the ordering of groups is not important can be done in (9C3 * 6C3 * 3C3) / (3!) = 280 ways Here, we divide by (3!) because the ordering of 3 groups is not ...
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Generate all possible unique combinations of positive numbers these have sum equal to N

This is my function to generate all possible unique combinations of positive numbers these have sum equal to N. For example: If the input is 4 The output should ...
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Generate all possible combination of n-pair parentheses

The task is taken from LeetCode Given n pairs of parentheses, write a function to generate all combinations of well-formed parentheses. For example, given n = 3, a solution set is: ...
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Forming all multiples of 3 using the given digits

I'm working on this kata from Codewars. The task is: Given a certain number, how many multiples of three could you obtain with its digits? Supose that you have the number 362. The numbers that can be ...
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Heap's algorithm implementation - permutations

I wrote an implementation of Heap's permutation algorithm in JavaScript (ES2015): ...
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Searching a string for any permutation of words

Given a string and an array of words, return all indexes in string for which a concatenation of all words in the array, in any order (so ["eensie", "weensy", "spider"] has six orderings) can be ...
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Brute force password cracker

I wrote this script for a proof of concept JavaScript password cracker: ...
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5 votes
2 answers
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Possible combinations following a rule

The problem is the following: We have a number of months to buy a number of supplies. The sooner we finish buying them, the better, but we don't know how much we can buy per month and would like to ...
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Counting the ways to pick increasing sequences from sorted arrays

Preamble I am trying to learn JavaScript by writing code and looking up documentation, one problem at a time. I am already familiar with several "dynamic" languages, so I'm hoping to be productive ...
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