Counting combinations in c or in python
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Hello I looked a bit on this topic here but I found nothing that could help me.
I need a program in Python or in C that will give me all possible combinations of a and b that will meet the requirement n=2*a+b, for n from 0 to 10. a, b and n are integers. For example if n=0 both a and b must be 0. For n=1 a must be zero and b must be 1, for n=2 a can be 1 and b=0, or a=0 and b=2, etc.
I'm not that good with programming. I made this:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void){
int a,b,n;
for(n = 0; n <= 10; n++){
for(a = 0; a <= 10; a++){
for(b = 0; b <= 10; b++)
if(n == 2*a + b)
printf("(%d, %d), ", (a,b));
}
printf("\n");
}
}
But it keeps getting strange results like this:
(0, -1079628000), (1, -1079628000), (2, -1079628000), (0, -1079628000), (3, -1079628000), (1, -1079628000), (4, -1079628000), (2, -1079628000), (0, -1079628000), (5, -1079628000), (3, -1079628000), (1, -1079628000), (6, -1079628000), (4, -1079628000), (2, -1079628000), (0, -1079628000), (7, -1079628000), (5, -1079628000), (3, -1079628000), (1, -1079628000), (8, -1079628000), (6, -1079628000), (4, -1079628000), (2, -1079628000), (0, -1079628000), (9, -1079628000), (7, -1079628000), (5, -1079628000), (3, -1079628000), (1, -1079628000), (10, -1079628000), (8, -1079628000), (6, -1079628000), (4, -1079628000), (2, -1079628000), (0, -1079628000),
Any idea what is wrong?
Also if I could do this for Python it would be even cooler. :D
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