HMMT 2018 C7
- Combinatorics
- Answer
A tourist is learning an incorrect way to sort a permutation of the integers . We define a on two adjacent elements and , to be an operation which swaps the two elements if , and does nothing otherwise. The tourist performs rounds of fixes, numbered . In round of fixes, the tourist fixes and , then and , and so on, up to and . In this process, there are total fixes performed. How many permutations of can the tourist start with to obtain after performing these steps?
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1009! \cdot 1010!
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