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Questions related to permutations, bijections from a finite (or sometimes infinite) set to itself.

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Conceptual reason why the sign of a permutation is well-defined?

Draw a braid on $n$ strings sloppily, so that no three strings pass through the same point. Convince yourself that the parity of the number of crossings is the same in every other drawing of the sam …
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Number of solutions and minimal clues in Sixy Sudoku

As for the first question, a backtracking algorithm, see sixy.c at https://github.com/wilberdk/sixy shows there are 1936 completions of $$\matrix{1&2&3&4&5&6\cr *&*&*&*&*& *\cr *&*&*&*&*&*\cr *&*& …
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