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Plot Device: Body Swap (Transposition)

November 4, 2024Original blog post

A story trope recast as a math object: Body Swap (Transposition).

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024-11-04-mathematical-plot-devices--plot-device-body-swap-transposition/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

Body Swap (transposition): Two people exchange bodies. All others are mapped into their original bodies.

Topics
Discrete Math › Permutations › Transpositions
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High SchoolCollege
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