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: But, it's true also that it would be nice if there were some concise way of describing all possible results which wasn't the algorithm itself. (And, thanks for calling attention to that issue.) --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 02:04, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
 
:: <code>AB -> BA -> AB</code> is ''not'' a cycle; <code>BA</code> is. Similarly, <code>ABCD -> BADC -> ABCD</code> is not a cycle, but ''neither'' is <code>BADC</code>. If you don't believe me, you can read the first paragraph of the Wikipedia page on cyclic permutations (I won't bother linking it; I trust you can find it yourself). --[[User:Dick de Bill|Dick de Bill]] ([[User talk:Dick de Bill|talk]]) 14:1114, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
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