For example,
the list {1, 2, 3, 4} can be permuted into two cycles in the following
ways:
Here are some illegible diagrams showing the cycles for permutations of a list with five elements.
s(5, 1) = 24:
s(5, 2) = 50:
s(5, 3) = 35:
s(5, 4) = 10:
s(5, 5) = 1:
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