Definition:Derangement

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A derangement is a permutation $f: S \to S$ from a set $S$ to itself where $f \left({s}\right) \ne s$ for any $s \in S$.

If $S$ is finite, the number of derangements is denoted by $D_n$ where $n = \left|{S}\right|$ (the cardinality of $S$.)


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