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A 13th-Century Enumeration Algorithm, Ignored for 700 Years
In Or ha-Sekhel, the Kabbalist Abraham Aboulafia prescribes a systematic way to run through every arrangement of the letters of a word. With only two or three simple rules, he describes what we would now call a recursive algorithm for generating permutations.
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