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Jun 25, 2022 at 4:39 answer added Anders Kaseorg timeline score: 2
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Feb 8, 2018 at 10:52 comment added user74201 Is it fine to use built-in combinatorial functions?
Jan 24, 2017 at 23:19 comment added Peter Taylor chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/52408/cyclic-mutual-derangements
Jan 24, 2017 at 14:01 history tweeted twitter.com/StackCodeGolf/status/823893483211649024
Jan 24, 2017 at 5:29 comment added Alecto If n is an odd number than m can be n-1 but that isn't covered in the challenge
Jan 24, 2017 at 5:18 comment added Alecto The worst case time complexity will always be when m=n-2 (since that's the maximum value m can take on for the challenge). Different algorithms will be compared for that case.
Jan 24, 2017 at 5:11 comment added xnor "The fastest algorithm (in time complexity) wins." There's two parameters here, m and n, so it's not clear how to compare tradeoffs between these. If you mean for m to be linear in n, that would resolve it.
Jan 24, 2017 at 2:17 comment added Alecto If you'd like I could share all the code I've produced so far working on this problem.
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Jan 24, 2017 at 2:05 comment added Alecto I cleared up ambiguity and stated that all the different ways of doing it with m cycles of length n should have the same probability of occurring
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Jan 24, 2017 at 1:57 comment added Alecto An answer for n=9, m=7 is {{5, 3, 4, 2, 0, 7, 8, 6, 1}, {2, 0, 8, 6, 5, 3, 1, 4, 7}, {1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 2, 3, 0, 5}, {8, 6, 0, 4, 7, 1, 2, 5, 3}, {3, 7, 5, 1, 2, 0, 4, 8, 6}, {4, 5, 7, 8, 3, 6, 0, 1, 2}, {6, 8, 3, 5, 1, 4, 7, 2, 0}}
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Jan 23, 2017 at 23:17 comment added Peter Taylor Can you give an example with n=9, m=7? (If you can then there's a further ambiguity, which is what the distribution of the random cycles should be: I presume it's selecting a random set of valid derangements such that each set is selected with equal probability assuming a perfect random number generator, but that's not entirely clear; however, the task being actually possible is a much bigger problem).
Jan 23, 2017 at 23:07 comment added Alecto Please either clarify what the ambiguity is that remains or remove the hold on my question. I believe I have corrected everything you asked, and aside from that I don't believe it violates the rules in any way.
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Jan 23, 2017 at 19:52 history closed Peter Taylor
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