permute
Verb
Meaning
To interchange; to transfer reciprocally.
To exchange; to barter; to traffic.
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Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word
If we permute the rows, permute the columns, and permute the names of the symbols of a Latin square, we obtain a new Latin square said to be isotopic to the first.
Some systems also include permute functions that re-pack elements inside vectors, making them particularly useful for data processing and compression.
These are illustrated here in the cycle graph format, along with the 180° edge (blue arrows) and 120° vertex (reddish arrows) rotations that permute the tetrahedron through the positions.