http://www.programmersheaven.com/ Contains the latest posts from the thread 'Unique Number Generation' posted on the 'Algorithms' forum at Programmer's Heaven. en Copyright 2012 Programmers Heaven Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:17:48 -0800 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:17:48 -0800 Argotic Syndication Framework 2007.3.0.1, http://www.codeplex.com/Argotic http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 360 http://www.programmersheaven.com/images/ph.gif http://www.programmersheaven.com/ 88 31 http://www.programmersheaven.com/mb/Algorithms/409069/409069/unique-number-generation/ Hi,<br /> <br /> Suppose I have a list of numbers, say (a,b....n) i want to generate a unique number say u so that no other list, say (a1,b1... n1) will not give a number u1 and u!=u1 if (a,b...n)!=(a1,b1...n1)<br /> <br /> More over (a,b,...n) is same list as (b,a...n), so they should both generate u, ie order does not matter.<br /> <br /> Any one has any idea?<br /> <br /> What i came up with is (a+b+...n)+(a*b*...*n), can this fail in any time?<br /> <br /> Regards,<br /> Jishnu<br /> http://www.programmersheaven.com/mb/Algorithms/409069/409069/unique-number-generation/ Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:35:44 -0800 Algorithms