Permutation. The 6 permutations of 3 balls In mathematics , the notion of permutation is used with several slightly different meanings, all related to the act of permuting (rearranging) objects or values. Informally, a permutation of a set of objects is an arrangement of those objects into a particular order. For example, there are six permutations of the set {1,2,3}, namely (1,2,3) , (1,3,2), (2,1,3), (2,3,1), (3,1,2), and (3,2,1). For example, an anagram of a word is a permutation of its letters. The study of permutations in this sense generally belongs to the field of combinatorics . The number of permutations of n distinct objects is n ×( n − 1)×( n − 2)×⋯×2×1 , which is commonly denoted as " n factorial " and written " n !
". Permutations occur, in more or less prominent ways, in almost every domain of mathematics. In elementary combinatorics, the k -permutations, or partial permutations , are the sequences of k distinct elements selected from a set. . [ edit ] History [ edit ] Generalities. Calculating Permutations. The permutation of a set is the number of ways that the items in the set can be uniquely ordered.
For example, the permutations of the set { 1, 2, 3} are { 1, 2, 3}, { 1, 3, 2}, { 2, 1, 3}, { 2, 3, 1}, { 3, 1, 2} and { 3, 2, 1}. For N objects, the number of permutations is N! (N factorial, or 1 * 2 * 3 * ... N). Aside from theoretical interest in set theory, permutations have some practical use. Figure 1, An Omega permuation network, from Interconnection Networks: an engineering approach. by Duato, Yalamanchili and Ni, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003, Pg. 32 Permutation Algorithms and Job Interview Questions I wrote this web page as a result of a job interview. If you take a look at my resume you'll see that I've worked at a number of different companies, so I've done a fair amount of interviewing.
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