Permutation vs Combinate - What's the difference?
permutation | combinate |
(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 permutation and combinate
is that permutation is permutation while combinate is the result of a combining of two or more components.As an adjective combinate is
united; joined; betrothed.permutation
English
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}.