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Cyclic permutations

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us: Cyclic permutations



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    • us: Circular permutations
    • us: Cycles (Permutations)

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    • found: Work cat.: Aggarwal, C.C. A permutation-based pyramid broadcasting scheme for video-on-demand systems, 1996: abstr. (Instead of transmitting the blocks in each segment [of video] in sequential order, the proposed scheme transmits these blocks in a prespecified cyclic permutation ... )
    • found: James, R.C. Mathematics dictionary, 1992: p. 314 (A cyclic (or circular) permutation (or simply a cycle) is the advancing of each member of an ordered set of objects one position, the last member taking the position of the first. If the objects are thought of as arranged in order around a circle, a cyclic permutation is effected by rotating the circle)
    • found: Wolfram MathWorld, via WWW, Feb. 19, 2009 (cyclic permutation -- A permutation which shifts all elements of a set by a fixed offset, with the elements shifted off the end inserted back at the beginning)
    • found: The Penguin dictionary of mathematics, 1989 (cyclic permutation (circular permutation) -- A permutation in which each member of a set replaces a successive member or in which each member is replaced by a successive member)
    • found: McGraw-Hill dictionary of scientific and technical terms, 2003 (cyclic permutation -- [mathematics] -- A permutation of an ordered set of symbols which sends the first to the second, the second to the third, ... , the last to the first. Also known as cycle)

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