document.write( "Question 1205090: Express as a product of transposition.\r
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document.write( "When I posted the solution above I only wrote the permutations as a product\r\n" );
document.write( "of cycles.  I did not write the cycles as the product of transpositions. I\r\n" );
document.write( "have edited the problem to show each cycle as a product of transpositions.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Transpositions are cycles of length 2. The first number in each transposition\r\n" );
document.write( "is the first number in the cycle. The second number in each transposition is\r\n" );
document.write( "the other numbers in the cycle in reverse order.\r\n" );
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document.write( "[a,b,c,d,e,f] = [a,f][a,e][a,d][a,c][a,b] \r\n" );
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