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PostPosted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:16 am    Post subject: Finding the distance between two permutations of a string of length N Reply with quote
Hi,


I need to find distance between two permutations of a string of length
N. Distance in this case is defined as the minimum number of swaps
needed to convert one permutation into another. Can somebody help me
out with it. The expected order of complexity is O(N.log(N)).


Eg: With two permutations as : abcd, cdba . The distance is 3 as min 3

swaps are required to convert one into another.
abcd(swap a and c) -> cbad(swap d and b) -> cdab(swap b and a)-> cdba
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:29 pm    Post subject: Re: Finding the distance between two permutations of a string of length N Reply with quote
vb.here@gmail.com wrote:
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Hi,


I need to find distance between two permutations of a string of length
N. Distance in this case is defined as the minimum number of swaps
needed to convert one permutation into another. Can somebody help me
out with it. The expected order of complexity is O(N.log(N)).


Eg: With two permutations as : abcd, cdba . The distance is 3 as min 3

swaps are required to convert one into another.
abcd(swap a and c) -> cbad(swap d and b) -> cdab(swap b and a)-> cdba

There was a thread related to this very topic a few days ago in
sci.math, called "Decomposition of a permutation into a product of
transpositions". The whole thread can be read at
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/browse_frm/thread/81221837dfb32b30/6f37517a56988eaf?lnk=st&q=permutation&rnum=19#6f37517a56988eaf
..

--- Christopher Heckman

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it in both newsgroups at the same time. That way, responses from one
group will show up in the other(s).
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