Sorting is one of the most used operations in real life, where Computer Science comes into act. It is well-known that the lower bound of swap based sorting is nlog(n). It means that the best possible sorting algorithm will take at least W(nlog(n)) swaps to sort a set of n integers. However, to sort a particular array of n integers, you can always find a swapping sequence of at most (n-1) swaps, once you know the position of each element in the sorted sequence. For example – consider four elements <1 2 3 4>. There are 24 possible permutations and for all elements you know the position in sorted sequence.
If the permutation is <2 1 4 3>, it will take minimum 2 swaps to make it sorted. If the sequence is <2 3 4 1>, at least 3 swaps are required. The sequence <4 2 3 1> requires only 1 and the sequence <1 2 3 4> requires none. In this way, we can find the permutations of N distinct integers which will take at least K swaps to be sorted.
Input
Each input consists of two positive integers N (1≤N≤21) and K (0≤K<N) in a single line. Input is terminated by two zeros. There can be at most 250 test cases.
Output
For each of the input, print in a line the number of permutations which will take at least K swaps.
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstring>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;
const int maxn=30;
unsigned long long f[maxn][maxn];
int main()
{
int i,j,n,k;
memset(f,0,sizeof(f));
f[1][0]=1;
for(i=2;i<=21;i++)
{
for(j=0;j<i;j++)
{
f[i][j]=f[i-1][j];
if(j>0)
{
f[i][j]+=f[i-1][j-1]*(i-1);
}
}
}
while(scanf("%d%d",&n,&k))
{
if(n==0&&k==0)
{
break;
}
printf("%llu\n",f[n][k]);
}
return 0;
}