, all different. Such a list represents a permutation
where the integer <em>i_2</em> appears in the <em>i_1</em>th position, the
integer <em>i_3</em> appears in the <em>i_2</em>th position and so on, until
the integer <em>i_1</em>, which appears in the <em>i_m</em>th position.
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<p>For instance, [4, 2, 1, 3] is one of the 24 permutations of degree four,
which can also be represented by the cycle [1, 4, 3]. The functions
where cycles are used to represent permutations also require the
order of the permuta