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Permutation matrix

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In linear algebra, a Permutation matrix is a matrix has exactly one 1 in each row or column and 0s elsewhere.

An example of a permutation matrix would be:

Multiplying a vector g by a permutation matrix has the effect of permuting the elements of g.