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Historically, notions or problems related to permutations occur — at least — as early as the Antiquity. For example, among the ancient Greeks, Spartans developed the art of encrypting messages via transposition ciphers as part of their military efforts (cf. Kelly [275]).
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Caspard, N., Santocanale, L., Wehrung, F. (2016). Permutohedra and Associahedra. In: Grätzer, G., Wehrung, F. (eds) Lattice Theory: Special Topics and Applications. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44236-5_7
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