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permanent [′pər·mə·nənt]
(mathematics)
For a matrix withmrows andncolumns, withnequal to or greater thanm, the sum, over all permutations ofmcolumns, of a product ofmterms, where theith term in the product is the term in theith row and the permutation of theith column.


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