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Permutation Groups · Hard problem

D5D_5, the symmetries of a regular pentagon, has order 1010 and is generated by a rotation rr of order 55 and a reflection ss of order 22. Under the left regular representation (Cayley's theorem) embedding D5D_5 into S10S_{10}, the permutation λs\lambda_s (left multiplication by ss) decomposes into disjoint 22-cycles. How many 22-cycles does it have?