permutations

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Probably a few people out there were thinking: "Why permutations if 1,2,3 and 3,1,2 are going to be considered equal?

Isn't that just a bunch of extra work?" The answers to those questions are "why not" and "yes""

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The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "That basic building block is known as the permutation of a list, as opposed to an array (or string).

Given Perl's definitions, at their basic, a list is static and cannot be modified, while the opposite is true of an array."

How to generate all permutations of a given list of numbers.