On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:58 AM, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Chris Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> from sympy.combinatorics import *
>>>>> Cycle()*(1,2)*(2,3)
>> [(1, 3, 2)]
>
> I call this L-R multiplication, because you "plug" 1 in from the left and
> see what cycle it belongs to by scanning L to R, then plug in the next
> smallest integer outside that cycle and see what cycle it belongs to, etc
> This agrees with Sage and Gap:

OK, then whatever we call it hopefully the doc strings are clear that
I've written?
>
> sage: G = SymmetricGroup(5)
> sage: g1 = G([(1,2)])
> sage: g2 = G([(2,3)])
> sage: g1*g2
> (1,3,2)
>
...
>> Permutation([0, 2, 3, 1])
>
> Which is (2,1,3).

So we agree on the result.

I'm very interested to see how using Permutaiton and Cycle feels to
you in the current branch. Any comment welcome. I think it's in good
shape now.

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