rics">Package combinatorics</a>
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<dt><u>Function:</u> <b>perm_cycles</b><i> (<var>p</var>)</i>
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<dd><p>Returns permutation <var>p</var> as a product of cycles. The cycles are
written in a canonical form, in which the lowest index in the cycle is
placed in the first position.
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<p>See also <code><a href="#perm_005fdecomp">perm_decomp</a></code>.
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<p>Example:
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