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gezhengwentoday at 10:47 AM1 replyview on HN

You are right, zero fixed points does not mean total structural difference. Your counterexample is good. My wording was wrong, I will fix it. What interests me is not the statistical rarity, but that 81% of elements are in one orbit — this means the reordering is highly coupled, not a bunch of small local swaps.


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mcphagetoday at 12:05 PM

> What interests me is not the statistical rarity, but that 81% of elements are in one orbit — this means the reordering is highly coupled, not a bunch of small local swaps.

But what is the significance of the reordering being highly coupled?

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