- reflecting twice is the identity. So
,
, etc.
In particular,
as 2006 is even.
is rotation by
about the origin.
is
rotation by
clockwise about the origin.
. So
.
is translation two units to the right;
is translation
three units to the right, and so on.
is translation 2006 units
to the right.
is not the same as
. (In fact, to get from one to the other you
could rotate by
about the origin - but this isn't a surprise,
as to get from the image of
to the image of
we'd do
(the inverse of
) followed by
, i.e.,
. However, the relationship
isn't introduced until the 3 star problem!).
is not the same as
.
is not the same as
.
However, changing the order does sometimes produce the same transformation:
, for example. (Of course,
commutes with everything!)
The inverse of
is
.
.
.
.