most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-23T13:17:28Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/87116 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/87116/formula-to-browse-through-combinations rockoroll 2012-01-31T07:47:50Z 2012-01-31T07:47:50Z

<p>Hi,</p> <p>Can anyone give me an idea of how to be able to browse through a set of combinations?</p> <p>Lets say that I have 3 objects that can hold 3 different values and I want to browse through these. How do I know which is the next combination? I will always know how many values every object can hold and they can always hold the same number of values and therefore I also know total number of combinations. So if I am on combination (3, 2, 1), how do I know that the next combination is (3, 2, 2)?</p> <p>Object O1 O2 O3</p> <p>Comb. 1. 1 1 1 Comb. 2. 2 1 1 Comb. 3. 2 2 1 . . . . Comb. 27. 3 3 3</p>