On Thu, 7 May 2015 00:00:18 -0400, "W. Edwin Clark" <wclark@mail.usf.edu> wrote:

This may be of interest:

Diameter of the Symmetric Group, Polynomial Bounds <http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~laci/papers/04soda.diam.pdf>

And see the references for other papers on this topic.

Thanks, I'll attempt to understand it. :) Leo