The Computer Journal 1983 26(2):97-105; doi:10.1093/comjnl/26.2.97
© 1983 by British Computer Society
Parallel Generation of Permutations
P. Gupta * and
G. P. Bhattacherjee *
Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
A parallel algorithm to generate all the nPr distinct permutations of r items out of n distinct items is presented in this paper. The algorithm requires O([nPr/P
rlog2r) units of time when P processors are available in the SIMD computer.
Received October 1981.
* Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

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