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Permutations are arrangements of the numbers $1,\ldots,n$ in an arbitrary order.

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Alternative to Hamming distance for permutations

I have two strings, where one is a permutation of the other. I was wondering if there is an alternative to Hamming distance where instead of finding the minimum number of substitutions required, it wo …
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