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in this page I've encountered this topic (it's a topic from combinatorics, so it's relevant to discrete maths with sets and so on [that's my justification to post it here ), anyway from my point of view the page describes poorly the successor operation:
"The resulting
sequence of elements constitutes another loop, which we will call
the "successor" of the original loop."
here's an example of such successor from the webpage:
I = 123 C = 231
A = 132 D = 312
B = 213 E = 321
IDEACB = A
DEACBI = A
EACBID = B
ACBIDE = A
CBIDEA = A
BIDEAC = E
i don't understand why for example the first sequence of elements equals A (or is identical to it), perhaps i missed something from the explanation, anyone care to explain.
btw, here's the page:
http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath031.htm
"The resulting
sequence of elements constitutes another loop, which we will call
the "successor" of the original loop."
here's an example of such successor from the webpage:
I = 123 C = 231
A = 132 D = 312
B = 213 E = 321
IDEACB = A
DEACBI = A
EACBID = B
ACBIDE = A
CBIDEA = A
BIDEAC = E
i don't understand why for example the first sequence of elements equals A (or is identical to it), perhaps i missed something from the explanation, anyone care to explain.
btw, here's the page:
http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath031.htm
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