I saw a comment in combinatorics.jl that this stuff is being moved over 
there so I'll check out if that's the same implementation. I think my use 
of the function is more likely what people want when thinking: "oh, I want 
all the permutations of this array"

On Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 4:12:35 PM UTC-5, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>
> That's definitely more memory efficient, but not much more computationally 
> efficient. There's probably a much cleverer way to compute the unique 
> permutations of a set of values that contain repetitions. It's arguable 
> that this is what permutations ought to do in the first place.
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:06 PM, David P. Sanders <dpsa...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
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>>
>>
>> El jueves, 19 de noviembre de 2015, 14:45:41 (UTC-6), Ratan Sur escribió:
>>>
>>> I want to get all the unique permutations of an array of a certain 
>>> length and this is the only way I currently know how to do it in one line. 
>>> Is there a builtin function for this?
>>>
>>> julia> unique(collect(permutations([1;0;0;0;1])))
>>> 10-element Array{Array{Int64,1},1}:
>>>  [1,0,0,0,1]
>>>  [1,0,0,1,0]
>>>  [1,0,1,0,0]
>>>  [1,1,0,0,0]
>>>  [0,1,0,0,1]
>>>  [0,1,0,1,0]
>>>  [0,1,1,0,0]
>>>  [0,0,1,0,1]
>>>  [0,0,1,1,0]
>>>  [0,0,0,1,1]
>>>
>>>
>> It turns out that the following works:
>>
>> unique(permutations([1, 0, 0, 0, 1]))
>>
>>  
>>
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