even permutation

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noun Mathematics.

a permutation of a set of n elements, x1, x2, … xn, that leaves unchanged the product of all differences of the form (xi — xj), where i is less than j.

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Compare odd permutation.

Origin of even permutation

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby even permutation

evening watch, Evenki, even-minded, even money, even out, even permutation, evens, even so, evensong, even-steven, event

How to use even permutation in a sentence

Alcohol and sugar, even in moderate amounts, are not only sinful but poisonous.
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This is even more striking in Submission than in his previous books.
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Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.
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Weiss is likely to get confirmed even as Warren and a handful of other progressive Democrats vote no.
Sen. Warren’s Main Street Crusade to Pressure Clinton|Eleanor Clift|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

For many years afterward it was a never-ending topic of conversation, and is more or less talked of even to this day.
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Some were even re-arrested for the same nefarious purpose, and the daily papers published their names on each occasion.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
Even as they gazed they saw its roof caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.
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I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Genoa has but recently and partially felt the new impulse, yet even here the march of improvement is visible.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
He was the strangest-looking creature Davy had ever seen, not even excepting the Goblin.
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