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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ia Paper 4 8E c ii Solution by
Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
For every binary sequence , independently fix the pair when and swap its two entries when . The resulting map is a permutation with , and different binary sequences produce different permutations. Therefore is uncountable.
In fact these are all the possibilities: if , bijectivity and the displacement bound force , while a point not in such an adjacent transposition is fixed.
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