Permutation vs Mutant - What's the difference?
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(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.
Something which has mutated, which has one or more new characteristics from a mutation.
* Your plaid fish are mutants .
(informal) Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
* I think your brother is a mutant ; he’s so weird!
That has undergone mutation.
* Your mutant fish are dying.
(informal) Strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
* Your mutant brother just growled at me again!
As nouns the difference between permutation and mutant
is that permutation is a one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself while mutant is something which has mutated, which has one or more new characteristics from a mutation.As an adjective mutant is
that has undergone mutation.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}.