Timeline for Number of Permutations?
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| Oct 17, 2013 at 20:54 | history | edited | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added a paragraph giving more information
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| Oct 17, 2013 at 1:01 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Peter, you are correct; I missed this nuance when I first posted the answer. The number I described only gives the average over all permutations with $j$ cycles. | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 8:59 | comment | added | Peter Mueller | Maybe one should make clear that this does not answer the question, unless the conjugacy class of $\sigma$ is already determined by the number $j$ of cycles. | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 22:42 | history | edited | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Corrected last sentence
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| Oct 15, 2013 at 22:25 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |