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Permutating vs Permutation - What's the difference?

permutating | permutation |

As a verb permutating

is present participle of permutate.

As a noun permutation is

a one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself.

permutating

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Verb

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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 ----