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Changes vs Permutation - What's the difference?

changes | permutation |

As a verb changes

is .

As a noun permutation is

permutation.

changes

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (change)
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    permutation

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia permutation) (en noun)
  • (mathematics) A one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself.
  • This permutation takes each element to the one following it, with the last mapped back to the first.
  • (mathematics, combinatorics) An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements.
  • There are six permutations of three elements, e.g. {abc, acb, bac, bca, cab, cba}.
  • (music) A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde.
  • Anagrams

    * importunate

    See also

    * (combinatorics) combination ----