Thursday, March 1, 2012

9.6-9.7, due March 2

Difficult: The most difficult part from this reading assignment had to do with permutations in section 9.7. I guess I feel like I am just missing something for this principle. I understand that a permutation is a bijective function so it has to be one-to-one as well as onto. However, I don't understand what the difference between a bijective function and a permutation is. If there is no difference, then why do we need to learn both?

Reflective: For this section I liked reading about inverse relations in section 9.6. I liked inverse relations because it was easy to understand. Its terminology relates to its definition and what it does. This made it make sense very quickly. This then made understanding the idea of an inverse function relatively easy since I already had the foundation for it. However, I would like to work through examples of inverse functions and apply both inverse functions and relations to help my understanding of how to use them.

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