<\/span>Hello everyone!<\/p>\n
This week, I'd like to talk about permutations.\u00a0 A permutation of a list is another list with the same elements in some order.\u00a0 For instance, imagine a deck of playing cards.\u00a0 Any way you shuffle the cards, you get the same cards, but you might get a different order.\u00a0 So the resulting ordering is a permutation of the original ordering.<\/p>\n
It turns out that for permutations, the specific items in our list don't matter all that much.\u00a0 We can rename the items in the list however we like.\u00a0 For instance, we could take our deck of cards and give each a different color, or we could number them <\/span>