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Hello,
I am working on generating permutations for a specific applications. Basically the problem is there are N steps (24 as of now but can change) and at each step there is a decision to be made. And based on this decision I will be making a calculation. And the maximum number of decisions that can be made is also a parameter. (k)
So for N = 4, k=1 the possibilities are;
0000
0001
0010
0100
1000
And for N=4, k=2 the possibilities are; so k=n includes k=n-1...
0000
0001
0010
0100
1000
0011
0101
0110
1001
1010
1100
I thought (not verified) the fastest way to generate the k=1 values is to generate a list of values 2^0...2^N and convert them to binary if I need a visual representation.
decisionslist1 = = Table.FromList(List.Generate(()=>[x = 0, y=0],each [x] <= N, each [x=[x]+1,y=Number.Power(2,x-1)],each [y]), Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error)
decimal - binary
0 0000
1 0001
2 0010
4 0100
8 1000
And then for k=2 (and potentiallyfor all the next k) a sensible approach seemed to cartesian product the previous list with itself add the values and eliminate duplicates.
I could write the code for k=2 but I can't figure out a way to make it generic, which I think requires dynamically adding columns or recursion.
let
N = 4,
decisionslist1 = Table.FromList(List.Generate(()=>[x = 0, y=0],each [x] <= N, each [x=[x]+1,y=Number.Power(2,x-1)],each [y]), Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error),
cartesian = Table.AddColumn(decisionslist1, "Custom", each decisionslist1),
expanded = Table.ExpandTableColumn(cartesian, "Custom", {"Column1"}, {"Column1.1"}),
renamed = Table.RenameColumns(expanded,{{"Column1", "a"}, {"Column1.1", "b"}}),
select = Table.SelectRows(renamed,each ([a] <> [b]) or (Number.From([a]) = 0 and Number.From([b])=0)),
sum = Table.AddColumn(select, "Custom", each [a]+[b]),
removeDuplicates = Table.Distinct(sum, {"Custom"}),
decisionlist2 = Table.RemoveColumns(removeDuplicates,{"a", "b"})
in
decisionlist2
outputing
decimal - binary
0 0000
1 0001
2 0010
4 0100
8 1000
3 0011
5 0101
9 1001
6 0110
10 1010
12 1100
How can I convert this into a generic function does this k-1 times taking k as an input?
I understand power query is not the ideal environment for such work but I am unfortunately there...
Thank you
Ruchan Ziya
Solved! Go to Solution.
@RZ You might find this helpful, it's an example of recursive code in Power Query: Fun with Graphing in Power BI - Part 5-by-5 - Microsoft Fabric Community
@RZ You might find this helpful, it's an example of recursive code in Power Query: Fun with Graphing in Power BI - Part 5-by-5 - Microsoft Fabric Community
Thanks,
Not very elegant but I managed to get it working by passing previousState and iteration count down the iteration thanks to your push to the right direction.
(N as number, k as number, optional prevStep as any, optional iteration as number) as any =>
let
decisionslist1 = Table.FromList(List.Generate(()=>[x = 0, y=0],each [x] <= N, each [x=[x]+1,y=Number.Power(2,x-1)],each [y]), Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error),
iteration = if iteration is null then 1 else iteration,
prevStep = if prevStep = null then decisionslist1 else prevStep,
cartesian = Table.AddColumn(decisionslist1, "Custom", each prevStep),
expanded = Table.ExpandTableColumn(cartesian, "Custom", {"Column1"}, {"Column1.1"}),
renamed = Table.RenameColumns(expanded,{{"Column1", "a"}, {"Column1.1", "b"}}),
select = Table.SelectRows(renamed,each ([a] <> [b]) or (Number.From([a]) = 0 and Number.From([b])=0)),
sum = Table.AddColumn(select, "Column1", each [a]+[b]),
removeDuplicates = Table.Distinct(sum, {"Column1"}),
removedcolumns = Table.RemoveColumns(removeDuplicates,{"a", "b"}),
decisionlist2 = if iteration = k then prevStep else GetPermutations(N,k,removedcolumns, iteration+1),
out = decisionlist2
in
out
coupling this with the toBinary function from Solved: Re: Number to Binary - Microsoft Fabric Community I am able to create the binary numbers(states/decisions for my purpose) up to k set bits at an acceptable performance...
for N=8, k=2...
Column1 toBinary
0 000000000000000000000000
1 000000000000000000000001
2 000000000000000000000010
3 000000000000000000000011
4 000000000000000000000100
5 000000000000000000000101
6 000000000000000000000110
8 000000000000000000001000
9 000000000000000000001001
10 000000000000000000001010
12 000000000000000000001100
16 000000000000000000010000
17 000000000000000000010001
18 000000000000000000010010
20 000000000000000000010100
24 000000000000000000011000
32 000000000000000000100000
33 000000000000000000100001
34 000000000000000000100010
36 000000000000000000100100
40 000000000000000000101000
48 000000000000000000110000
I would have shared a more generic function if I could, will do maybe one day if I can.
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