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Transposition

An exchange of two elements of a Set with all others staying the same. A transposition is therefore a Permutation of two elements. For example, the swapping of 2 and 5 to take the list 123456 to 153426 is a transposition.

See also Permutation, Transposition Order




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1999-05-26