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Yes, the second snake is a rotation of the first.

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Here, we duplicated the first snake (red numbers) and shifted the second snake to the right.

The numbers match.

The snakes are the same.

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A snake is a closed loop. In order to “simulate” a closed loop we have added the red numbers to the original snake. It’s just a lazy visual way to make our comparisons easier.