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2009 Jul 21
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Elementary Symmetric Polynomials
...ed values of the elementary symmetric polynomials in t variables. Below is what we have at the moment, but it is a little slow for our needs. Any suggestions? Thanks ahead of time for any help you can offer, Austin H. Jones Department of Mathematics Wake Forest University f<-function(v) { prodsub<-function(v,q){prod(v[q])} t<-length(v) C<-vector("list",t) for (i in 1:t) {C[[i]]<-combn(1:t,i)} e<-rep(0,t) for (i in 1:(t)) { e[i]<-sum(apply(C[[i]],2,prodsub,v=v)) } e<-c(1,e) e } Examples: > f(c(1,2,3)) [1] 1 6 11 6 > f(c(4,6,3,1,9)) [1] 1 23...