I assume that you want all tuples in which each column contains the corresponding column from either A or B. Here is one way to do it:
use strict; use warnings; my @A = qw(1 10 100 1000); my @B = qw(2 20 200 2000); my $sum = 0; foreach my $fac1 ($A[0], $B[0]) { foreach my $fac2 ($A[1], $B[1]) { foreach my $fac3 ($A[2], $B[2]) { foreach my $fac4 ($A[3], $B[3]) { my $prod = $fac1 * $fac2 * $fac3 * $fac4; $sum += $prod; printf "%5d %5d %5d %5d: %.0f\n", $fac1, $fac2, $fac3, + $fac4, $prod; } } } } print $sum;

Update: Corrected computation of products. Added print for debugging.

Bill

In reply to Re: adding n-tuples by BillKSmith
in thread adding n-tuples by kwatts59

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