# Is there an elegant way to generate the permutations of all the members of a set?

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**Created:** [August 20, 2021, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-an-elegant-way-to-generate-the-permutations-of-all-the-members-of-a-set/31810 "2021-08-20T17:04:55Z")
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#### Post date: [August 20, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-an-elegant-way-to-generate-the-permutations-of-all-the-members-of-a-set/31810/3 "2021-08-20T18:13:19Z")

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It is possible. But I have a few questions. What do you want to achieve in the end? `123456` as number may not be convenient as a lookup table. You may want to store it as an array or string `"123456"`. How are you referencing it to map to color?

I checked the referenced topic and it seems @jeremydouglass already gave an answer in a Python script. It would be so much nicer if you’d have explicitly linked it in the first place 🙂 and I guess, it’s a matter of porting it to Java.

> [@10 print chr$(205.5+rnd(1)); : goto 10](https://discourse.processing.org/t/10-print-chr-205-5-rnd-1-goto-10/15483/63):
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> OK. Here goes: [Is there an elegant way to generate the permutations of all the members of a set?](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-an-elegant-way-to-generate-the-permutations-of-all-the-members-of-a-set/31810)@jeremydouglass

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