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Built-in Functions

Lists and Matrices

Structure Manipulation

Permutations

Usage

• Permutations[list] generates a list of all possible permutations of the elements in list.

Notes

• Example: Permutations[

a,b,c

]

.

• There are

permutations of a list of

distinct elements.

• Repeated elements are treated as identical.

• The object list need not have head List.

• See Section 1.8.11.

• See also: Sort, Signature, Tuples, Reverse, RotateLeft.

• Related packages: DiscreteMath`Permutations`, DiscreteMath`Combinatorica`.

• New in Version 1.

Further Examples

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