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What is a permutation?

What is a permutation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered.
  2. (mathematics) A one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself.
  3. (mathematics) An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements.
  4. (music) A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde.
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For this simple example, this means we can get to any of the six permutation matrices in a single swap.
Another permutation could be to cut spending and taxes and retire the national debt.
Sound repetition and permutation, together with various graphic variants, thus governs meaning in Bergvall's poem.
Chromosome-wide significance thresholds were determined by permutation as previously described.
The original program performed bootstraps, but we developed additional permutation and resampling options to improve statistical testing.
We can use any one of the three letters in CAT as the first member of a permutation.

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