Permutation(n) returns nothing when n > 3

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This works as expected when n = 1, 2, or 3:

a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
print a.permutation(n).to_a

But when I do print a.permutation(4).to_a, nothing prints out. There’s no error, and I’ve tried a couple of other arrays, but nothing. Also,

print a.permutation.to_a

doesn’t work either, where n is effectively 8. Am I missing something simple?

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I’d have to do a bit more digging if I were to confirm this, but my gut instinct is that it is a similar situation to the one I suggested here:

(I suspect the length of data that permutation returns gets quite large pretty quickly with increasing values of n).

3

FYI - I remember now :slight_smile:
The cause of this is indeed a limitation on the size of data being sent in an OSC packet. I discovered this a while ago as seen here (while attempting to print data derived from large folders of samples):

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Oh, right, I see. Most importantly, though, in these cases computing operations work as expected using large results that can’t be printed out to the GUI, right?

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Correct. The computations themselves will work, but the last step of sending the text output to the log panel will not.

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