2017 Winter Waterloo Local ACM Contest, Problem D
Vera is very smart and invented a new sorting algorithm. She coded the following Python function to count how many steps her algorithm takes.
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def steps(array):
if len(array) == 0:
return 0
pivot = array[0]
count = 0
lesser = []
greater = []
for element in array: # looks at each element in the array
count += 1
if element < pivot:
lesser.append(element) # e.g. [1,3].append(5) => [1,3,5]
elif element > pivot:
greater.append(element)
return count + steps(lesser) + steps(greater)
A permutation
You are given integers
Help Vera count the number of permutations
Constraints
are integers
Input Specification
The input will be in the format:
Output Specification
Output one integer, the number of possible permutations, modulo
Sample Input 1
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3 5
Sample Output 1
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2
Explanation of Sample Output 1
The 2 valid permutations are
Sample Input 2
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5 29
Sample Output 2
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0
Sample Input 3
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20 100
Sample Output 3
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262859528
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