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Conjugacy and the Class Equation · Hard problem

In S6S_6, consider the permutation σ=(1 2)(3 4)(5 6)\sigma = (1\,2)(3\,4)(5\,6) (three disjoint transpositions). What is the order of the centralizer CS6(σ)C_{S_6}(\sigma), the set of all permutations in S6S_6 that commute with σ\sigma?