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I created with

Tuples[{{USD, EUR, JPY}, {UP, DOWN}}]

the following result:

{{USD, UP}, {USD, DOWN}, {EUR, UP}, {EUR, DOWN}, {JPY, UP}, {JPY, DOWN}}

I want to further have a 3 dimensional list of all combinations - but the same currency does not appear twice. Example output

{{{USD, UP}, {EUR, UP}, {JPY, UP}}, {{USD, UP}, {EUR, UP}, {JPY, DOWN}}, {{USD, UP}, {EUR, DOWN}, {JPY, UP}}, {{USD, UP}, {EUR, DOWN}, {JPY, DOWN}}, ... {{USD, DOWN}, {EUR, DOWN}, {JPY, DOWN}}}

Is there a simple way to do it?

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Here is one way:

Tuples@Outer[List, {USD, EUR, JPY}, {UP, DOWN}]
(*
  {{{USD, UP}, {EUR, UP}, {JPY, UP}},
   {{USD, UP}, {EUR, UP}, {JPY, DOWN}},
   {{USD, UP}, {EUR, DOWN}, {JPY, UP}},
   {{USD, UP}, {EUR, DOWN}, {JPY, DOWN}},
   {{USD, DOWN}, {EUR, UP}, {JPY, UP}},
   {{USD, DOWN}, {EUR, UP}, {JPY, DOWN}},
   {{USD, DOWN}, {EUR, DOWN}, {JPY, UP}},
   {{USD, DOWN}, {EUR, DOWN}, {JPY, DOWN}}}
*)
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  • $\begingroup$ I can't beat that. I tried. :-) $\endgroup$ – Mr.Wizard♦ Jul 18 '14 at 13:12
  • $\begingroup$ @Mr.Wizard Thanks! $\endgroup$ – Michael E2 Jul 18 '14 at 13:19
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Yes, one way is to use Tuples again after some judicious partitioning:

Tuples[Partition[Tuples[{{"USD", "EUR", "JPY"}, {"UP", "DOWN"}}], 2]]

Note the 2 is the length of the second set in the original Tuples so you could write your own function:

myTuples[list1_List, list2_List] := Tuples[Partition[Tuples[{list1, list2}], Length[list2]]]
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