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Count the ways to place non-attacking lions in a 2 by N grid so that no two lions sit in adjacent cells, modulo 9901.
- Level
Medium4 of 10
- Topics
- Dynamic programming, Combinatorics, Math
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Problem
A zoo has cages arranged as a grid with 2 columns and N rows. Each cell can contain at most one lion.
When placing lions, no two lions may be in horizontally or vertically adjacent cells.
Find the number of ways to place lions in the 2*N cells while satisfying this condition. The arrangement with no lions is also counted as one valid way.
Input
The first line contains the number of rows N.
- 1 <= N <= 100,000
Output
Print the number of valid lion placements modulo 9901.