Timeline for What are some early examples of creation of lists / catalogues of (particularly) combinatorial objects?
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| Feb 7, 2018 at 22:07 | comment | added | Noam D. Elkies | There's the 64 diagrams in the I Ching (mathematically almost trivial but way earlier than the Tale of Genji). | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 15:54 | comment | added | Richard Stanley | Knuth gives many examples of ancient lists of permutations, combinations, partitions, etc. | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 23:22 | history | edited | Richard Stanley | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 23, 2010 at 3:54 | comment | added | Gordon Royle | The latter is a good example of the things I am looking for. The former is more about the process of generating, say, permutations efficiently in that (I don't think) anybody would actually sit down and list all the permutations as an end in itself. On the other hand, a list of all the posets is a non-trivial listing that could be used to search for examples, test conjectures etc. | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 3:34 | history | edited | Richard Stanley | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 23, 2010 at 3:14 | history | answered | Richard Stanley | CC BY-SA 2.5 |