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5.10.14  Signature of a permutation: signature

signature takes as argument a permutation.
signature returns the signature of the permutation given as argument.
The signature of a permutation is equal to:

The signature of a cycle of size k is: (−1)k+1.
Input:

signature([3,4,5,2,0,1])

Output:

-1

Indeed permu2cycles([3,4,5,2,0,1])=[[0,3,2,5,1,4]].


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