Alright right now I am a bit confused... I have been given a challenge to perform in any programming language of my choosing. I don't have to tell you whihc one I picked to use.

The problem seems like a simple one. Here are the rules to the program/challenge/algorithm I need to implement.

• There are n number of people.
• These people need to be divided up into x amount of teams, evenly.
• This needs to be done d time(s), so that no two people are ever in the same group again.

Currently I have worked out my own implementation of the algorithm, but my only problem is that it takes forever to generate the teams. I was wondering if anyone had any idea how to do this more efficiently. I would post my code, but I am sort of away from the computer that has it. Damn vacations... :)

thealienz

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