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Tag Archives: primitive
Imprimitive permutations in primitive groups
Asymptotics of permutation counts is a subject with a long history. The result that the proportion of permutations which are derangements (that is, have no fixed points) is very close to 1/e is one of the oldest results in enumerative … Continue reading
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Tagged imprimitive, permutation, permutation group, primitive, Wielandt's conjecture
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Regular polytopes, 3
In the last two posts on regular polytopes, I gave away something about my method of working. Although I have known about regular polytopes for a long time, I have never attempted to do research on them before. I find … Continue reading