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The alternating and symmetric groups of degree both have rank .
To verify this, compute the number of orbits of the stabilizer of a point on the original domain.
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Note that the rank is only defined for transitive permutation groups. If the input to the PermGroupRank command is an intransitive group, then an exception is raised, as in the following example.
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