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 TupleIndex

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Compute the index of a given tuple of non-negative integers

Contributed by: Ed Pegg Jr

ResourceFunction["TupleIndex"][tuple]

returns the index of tuple as it would appear in a list of all integer tuples of the same length, sorted by the maximal element.

Details and Options

A tuple with largest element n will be ordered after tuples that have all elements less than n.
In case of ties, tuples with largest element n have Sort ordering.

Examples

Basic Examples (6) 

Get the index of a 3-tuple:

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ResourceFunction["TupleIndex"][{0, 1, 1}]
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Get the index of a 3-tuple with a larger element:

In[2]:=
ResourceFunction["TupleIndex"][{0, 1, 2}]
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Show by example how element sizes and positions affect ordering:

In[3]:=
Map[ResourceFunction[ "TupleIndex"], {{0, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}, {0, 2, 1}, {0, 2, 2}, {1, 0, 2}}]
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Indices of 2-tuples sorted by maximal element:

In[4]:=
ResourceFunction["TupleIndex"] /@ SortBy[Tuples[{0, 1, 2}, {2}], Max]
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Indices of 3-tuples sorted by maximal element:

In[5]:=
ResourceFunction["TupleIndex"] /@ SortBy[Tuples[{0, 1, 2, 3}, {3}], Max]
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Show the tuples as they would be sorted by TupleIndex:

In[6]:=
SortBy[Tuples[Range[0, 2], 3], ResourceFunction["TupleIndex"]]
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Find indices of some larger k-tuples:

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ResourceFunction[ "TupleIndex"] /@ {{999999, 999999}, {9999, 9999, 9999}, {999, 999, 999, 999}, {58, 251, 174, 151, 123}, {99, 99, 99, 99, 99, 99}, {47, 11, 16, 51, 29, 21, 41}, {21, 17, 31, 0, 18, 30, 14, 27}, {12, 1, 14, 3, 17, 21, 14, 15, 8}, {13, 15, 14, 1, 3, 13, 15, 3, 7, 0}, {3, 5, 5, 0, 8, 9, 9, 12, 8, 4, 0}, {9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9}}
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Properties and Relations (2) 

Use Tuples to produce 3-tuples sorted by maximal element:

In[8]:=
orderbymax = SortBy[Tuples[Range[0, 2], {3}], {Max[#], #} &]
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TupleIndex is based on this ordering:

In[9]:=
ResourceFunction["TupleIndex"] /@ orderbymax
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Neat Examples (2) 

Find the index of a large 6-tuple:

In[10]:=
ResourceFunction[ "TupleIndex"][{46415888336127788, 25278305421600277, 25756471829601431, 6667595205862458, 14964195829129700, 2182024098365373}]
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Find the index of a large 111-tuple:

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ResourceFunction[ "TupleIndex"][{4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 5, 4, 7, 1, 0, 3, 1, 1, 1, 2, 6, 2, 6, 6, 6, 6, 3, 1, 3, 1, 4, 7, 3, 6, 3, 1, 3, 2, 3, 0, 6, 1, 2, 6, 6, 3, 7, 4, 1, 1, 5, 6, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 4, 5, 1, 6, 3, 5, 0, 2, 3, 2, 6, 0, 7, 2, 5, 6, 3, 2, 0, 3, 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 7, 1, 5, 2, 0, 5, 7, 6, 4, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 5, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 7, 6, 1, 6, 5, 6, 1, 6, 0, 2, 1, 1, 2, 6}]
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Version History

  • 2.0.0 – 20 December 2019
  • 1.0.0 – 02 December 2019

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