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bagalois · 5 months ago

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you'd think that the group formed by the permutations of n elements would be called the permutation group on n elements. wrong. thats actually the symmetric group on n letters.

#its actually subgroups of the symmetric group that are called permutation groups #and where did the “letters” come from anyway #goddammit i cant believe ive become the type of person to ask “where did the letters come from” while doing algebra #the real letters were the algebraists jumping on every opportunity to use an alphabet along the way

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