Necklaces and Groups. The Burnside Lemma

Here is a fun riddle: suppose you have beads in n different colors, and you want to make a necklace with say, 5 beads. How many different ways are there to do this? Well, you can first look at the possible colors for the beads: Each position can have n different colors, and there are […]

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