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Alternating group
Group of even permutations of a finite set / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In mathematics, an alternating group is the group of even permutations of a finite set. The alternating group on a set of n elements is called the alternating group of degree n, or the alternating group on n letters and denoted by An or Alt(n).
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