#lang racket (define (subsets-of lst n) (cond [(null? lst) null] ; 0 ways of making anything out of empty set [(= n 0) (list null)] ; 1 way of making a 0 sized subset of something [(= n 1) (map list lst)] ; |lst| ways of making singletons [else (let ([head (car lst)] [tail (cdr lst)]) (append ;; HEAD is a part of the subset, so the rest of the subset ;; must be an n-1 sized subset of TAIL (map (lambda (lst) (cons head lst)) (subsets-of tail (- n 1))) ;; ... or HEAD is not part of the subset, so the subset is ;; some n sized subset of TAIL (subsets-of tail n)))])) (define (powerset lst) (append* ; flatten list of n sized subsets to just get subsets (map (lambda (n) (subsets-of lst n)) ; get subset of size n (range 0 (+ 1 (length lst)))))) ; n from 0 to |lst| (define (test? name expected got [equality equal?]) ;; Print success of test (i.e. (equality expected got)) and return a ;; boolean representing if it worked. (printf "[TEST ~a]: " name) (if (equality expected got) (begin (displayln "Success") #t) (begin (printf "Failure (expected=~a, got=~a)~n" expected got) #f))) (define-syntax (perform-tests stx) (with-syntax ([t-clauses (datum->syntax stx (map (lambda (clause) (syntax-case clause () [(name expected got) #'(test? 'name expected got)])) (cdr (syntax->list stx))))]) #'(and (~@ . t-clauses)))) (let ([small (range 10)] [medium (range 50)] [large (range 100)]) (perform-tests ;; Base case on lst ("subsets-of->lst=null->n=0" 0 (length (subsets-of null 0))) ("subsets-of->lst=null->n=1024" 0 (length (subsets-of null 1024))) ;; Base case on n ("subsets-of->lst=[10]->n=0" 1 (length (subsets-of small 0))) ("subsets-of->lst=[50]->n=0" 1 (length (subsets-of medium 0))) ("subsets-of->lst=[100]->n=0" 1 (length (subsets-of large 0))) ;; Singletons ("subsets-of->lst=[10]->n=1" 10 (length (subsets-of small 1))) ("subsets-of->lst=[50]->n=1" 50 (length (subsets-of medium 1))) ("subsets-of->lst=[100]->n=1" 100 (length (subsets-of large 1))) ;; Binomial theorem tests (symmetry along the middle of Pascal's triangle) ("subsets-of->lst=[10]->n=2~~n=8" (length (subsets-of small 2)) (length (subsets-of small 8))) ("subsets-of->lst=[10]->n=3~~n=7" (length (subsets-of small 3)) (length (subsets-of small 7))) ("subsets-of->lst=[10]->n=4~~n=6" (length (subsets-of small 4)) (length (subsets-of small 6)))))