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Each symmetry of a square permutes the square’s vertices, and also permutes its edges. You can tell which symmetry was performed by observing how the vertices or edges were permuted. For this reason and for many more to come, permutations are a crucial key to understanding symmetry.
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Tapp, K. (2012). Permutations. In: Symmetry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0299-2_6
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