Using one idea I took from The Oldest Plays the Piano by casiano, I wrote the following script that returns those 6 combinations:

#!perl
use v5.10;
use strict;
use warnings;

my $objects = "12345";

sub f {
  print join('|', @_) . "\n";
}

$objects =~ /^(.+)(.+)(.+)$
              (?{ f($1, $2, $3) })
              (*FAIL)
            /x;

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123|4|5
12|34|5
12|3|45
1|234|5
1|23|45
1|2|345

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I don't think that this is a Diophantine equation, but it's still a freak way to solve this problem.

BTW, does the OP want other combinations like 13|24|5?

In reply to Re: x objects in y containers where all objects are used by vitoco
in thread x objects in y containers where all objects are used by Ectaris

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