Permutation vs Formulation - What's the difference?
permutation | formulation |
(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.
The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
(medicine) A medicinal preparation
As nouns the difference between permutation and formulation
is that permutation is permutation while formulation is the act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.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}.