Alteration vs Permutation - What's the difference?
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The act of altering or making different.
* 1594 , , Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity ,
The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.
* 1892 , ,
(mathematics) A one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself.
(mathematics, combinatorics) An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements.
(music) A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde.
As nouns the difference between alteration and permutation
is that alteration is the act of altering or making different while permutation is a one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself.alteration
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Noun
(en noun)- …alteration , though it be from worse to better, hath in it inconveniences…
- …and I saw by the alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started.
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*permutation
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Noun
(wikipedia permutation) (en noun)- This permutation takes each element to the one following it, with the last mapped back to the first.
- There are six permutations of three elements, e.g. {abc, acb, bac, bca, cab, cba}.
