Random Shuffle
Time limit1sMemory limit1024 MB
Given n and the permutation produced by a xorshift-based Fisher-Yates shuffle, find a 64-bit seed x that generates that exact output.
- Level
Hard8 of 10
- Topics
- Bit manipulation, Math
- Solved
- No attempts yet
Problem
Prof. Pang is selecting teams that advance to the world final contest. As the regionals are cancelled, he uses random shuffle to rank the teams. There are teams in total. His code is as follows:
uint64_t x;//uint64_t represents 64-bit unsigned integer
int n;
uint64_t rand() {//this is a xor-shift random generator
x ^= x << 13;
x ^= x >> 7;
x ^= x << 17;
return x;
}
int main() {
cin >> n;
cin >> x;
for (int i = 1; i ≤ n; i++) {//random shuffle [1, 2,..., n]
a[i] = i;
swap(a[i], a[rand() % i + 1]);
}
for (int i = 1; i ≤ n; i++) {//print the result
cout << a[i] << (i == n ? '\n' : ' ');
}
}
He compiled and ran his code and then entered and some special nonnegative integer . He printed the result on paper.
One day later, Prof. Pang forgot his choice for . You are given the result of the code and the integer . Please recover the number that Prof. Pang had entered.
Input
The first line contains a single integer (), the number of teams.
The next line contains integers, the result printed by Prof. Pang's code. It is guaranteed that the result is correct. That is, there exists an integer () that leads to the result.
Output
Output the integer () that Prof. Pang had entered. If there are multiple possible values, print any one of them.
Hint
Note that the second line of the sample input is wrapped to fit the width of the page.