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symmetric group
symmetric groupn. A group consisting of all possible permutations of a given number of items.Symmetric Group
symmetric group[sə′me·trik ′grüp] (mathematics) The group consisting of all permutations of a finite set of symbols. Symmetric Group A symmetric group of order n is a group consisting of all possible permutations of n objects. Such a group has n! elements. The permutations of n objects with an even number of inversions form an alternating subgroup of the symmetric group; this alternating subgroup has n!/2 elements. |