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# Egyptian Informatics Olympiad 2009

Hanadi has N flower pots each with a unique flower. The pots are arranged along a line. One day she decided to change their order under the condition that no two pots that were originally next to each other remain next to each other. Find no of days she can continue this way :

For 5 pots there are 14 orders satisfying Hanadi’s condition, assuming the original order of pots was “ABCDE” then the 14 possible orders are:

Note by Anurag Choudhary
4 years, 2 months ago

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Probably Catalan numbers, but that's just my first guess.

- 4 years, 2 months ago

principle of IEB,let the unrestricted cas e be N,that is n factorial,now by the principle,we knw N(A1 un A2 unA3....An)=N-n(1)+n(2).......

- 4 years, 2 months ago

Comment deleted Nov 11, 2013

That would be infinity

- 4 years, 2 months ago

Answer would come from some kind of recurrence relation and for your information correct answer is is (N - 1)! - Σk! (k from 0 ko N-2)

- 4 years, 2 months ago