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Permutation Groups · Medium problem

A permutation in S10S_{10} has disjoint cycle type (4,3,2,1)(4,3,2,1) (a 44-cycle, a 33-cycle, a 22-cycle, and one fixed point). What is the minimum number of transpositions needed to write it as a product of transpositions?