ece264/problems/ECE264Assignments/Spring2013/PA03/README

This assignment asks you to solve three problems using recursion.  You
will find that the solutions have similar structures.

The three problems are

* partition a positive integer
* list all subsets of a given set
* permute the elements in a set

You should change only answer03.c.  You can add more functions in
that file.  Do not modify pa03.h or pa03.c.

Please check the sample outputs for the formats.

The outputs of your programs are sorted before being compared with the
expected outputs.  Thus, you do not need to worry about the
orders. For example, your program may output

A B C
C B A

even though in the sample output, the order is

C B A
A B C

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Partitioning an integer means breaking the integer into the sum of
some positive integers (including the integer itself).

For example, 3 can be partitioned into
   1 + 1 + 1 
   1 + 2
   2 + 1
   3

Your solution should be general.  You will receive zero if you hard
code the answers for some cases, something like the following:

   if (n == 3)
   {
     printf("1 + 1 + 1\n");
     printf("1 + 2\n");
     printf("2 + 1\n");
     printf("3\n");
   }

This solution is not general and you fail to demonstrate understanding
of recursion.

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A set's subsets include none, some, or all elements of the set.  

For this problem, we do not include the empty set.

For example, consider the set {A, B, C, D}

The subsets include
{A}
{B}
{C}
{D}
{A, B}
{A, C}
{A, D}
{B, C}
{B, D}
{C, D}
{A, B, C}
{A, C, D}
{A, B, D}
{B, C, D}
{A, B, C, D}

The orders of the elements do not matter.

Similar to the integer partition problem, your program must provide a
general solution.  You cannot do anything like 

   if (n == 3)
   {
      ...
   }

   if (n == 4)
   {
      ...
   }

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Permutation is similar to the subset problem but the orders matter.
Thus,

A B C D

is considered different from

A C D B

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To simplify the outputs of your program, you do not need to print "+"
for integer partition, "{", ",", or "}" for subsets.  Use space to
separate the numbers and the elements.  Please check the sample outputs
for the formats.