TopCoder problem "Deranged" used in SRM 176 (Division I Level Two)



Problem Statement

    A derangement of n numbers is a permutation of those numbers in which none of the numbers appears in its original place. For example, the numbers {1,2,3} can be deranged into {2,3,1} and {3,1,2}. We can modify this slightly for n numbers that are not necessarily distinct by saying that no number in the derangement can be in the place that a number of the same value was in in the original ordering. So the numbers {1,1,2,2,3} could be deranged into {2,2,1,3,1}, {2,2,3,1,1}, {2,3,1,1,2}, and {3,2,1,1,2}. Create a class Deranged with a function numDerangements that takes a int[] nums and return the number of derangements of nums.
 

Definition

    
Class:Deranged
Method:numDerangements
Parameters:int[]
Returns:long
Method signature:long numDerangements(int[] nums)
(be sure your method is public)
    
 

Notes

-The return value will fit in a 64-bit unsigned integer.
 

Constraints

-nums will contain between 1 and 15 elements, inclusive.
-nums will only contain values between 0 and the number of elements in nums - 1, inclusive.
 

Examples

0)
    
{1,1,2,2,3}
Returns: 4
The example from above.
1)
    
{0,0,0,1,1,1}
Returns: 1
The only derangement is {1,1,1,0,0,0}.
2)
    
{0,0,0,1,1,1,1}
Returns: 0
There is no way to arrange the numbers such that no 1 is where a 1 was originally.
3)
    
{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2}
Returns: 14
4)
    
{0,5,4,2,3,6,6}
Returns: 640
5)
    
{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14}
Returns: 481066515734

Problem url:

http://www.topcoder.com/stat?c=problem_statement&pm=2013

Problem stats url:

http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=ProblemDetail&rd=4685&pm=2013

Writer:

Running Wild

Testers:

lbackstrom , brett1479

Problem categories:

Advanced Math