Generating all distinct partitions of a number

Question

I am trying to write a C code to generate all possible partitions (into 2 or more parts) with distinct elements of a given number. The sum of all the numbers of a g

Answer 1

First, write a recursive algorithm that returns all partitions, including those that contain repeats.

Second, write an algorithm that eliminates partitions that contain duplicate elements.

EDIT:

You can avoid results with duplicates by avoiding making recursive calls for already-seen numbers. Pseudocode:

Partitions(n, alreadySeen)
 1. if n = 0 then return {[]}
 2. else then
 3.    results = {}
 4.    for i = 1 to n do
 5.       if i in alreadySeen then continue
 6.       else then
 7.          subresults = Partitions(n - i, alreadySeen UNION {i})
 8.          for subresult in subresults do
 9.             results = results UNION {[i] APPEND subresult}
10.    return results

EDIT:

You can also avoid generating the same result more than once. Do this by modifying the range of the loop, so that you only add new elements in a monotonically increasing fashion:

Partitions(n, mustBeGreaterThan)
1. if n = 0 then return {[]}
2. else then
3.    results = {}
4.    for i = (mustBeGreaterThan + 1) to n do
5.       subresults = Partitions(n - i, i)
6.       for subresult in subresults do
7.          results = results UNION {[i] APPEND subresult}
8.    return results