Questions on the use of Mathematica in combinatorics, including the Combinatorica add-on package.

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Probability problem — Rube Goldberg solution?

A user posted this question on StackOverflow which was closed as off topic: 3 people are playing a game with a standard 52 card deck. Each player is given 2 cards each, possible cards and their ...
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Permutations[Range[12]] produces an error instead of a list

This input: Permutations[Range[12]] Results in this (error) output: ...
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Combination and Permutation

How could I obtain the list of all the groups of 5 numbers taken from Range[12] such that the 2 lists have an empty intersection : ...

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