The Levi-Civita symbol, represented as ε, is a three-dimensional array (it is not a tensor because its components do not change with a change in coordinate system), each element of which is 1, -1, or 0 depending on the whether the permutations of its elements are even, odd, or neither; in other words, whether the cyclic order is increasing or decreasing (for example, (1,2,3) and (3,1,2) are even permutations while (3,2,1) and (2,1,3) are odd). For example, in three dimensions, the Levi-Civita symbol is equal to