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--ProjectEuler/lua/Problem24.lua
--Matthew Ellison
-- Created: 03-24-19
--Modified: 06-19-20
--What is the millionth lexicographic permutation of the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9?
--All of my requires, unless otherwise listed, can be found at https://bitbucket.org/Mattrixwv/luaClasses
--[[
Copyright (C) 2020 Matthew Ellison
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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]]
require "Stopwatch"
require "Algorithms"
NEEDED_PERM = 1000000; --The number of the permutation that you need
--Setup the variables
local timer = Stopwatch:create();
local nums = "0123456789";
--Start the timer
timer:start();
--Get all permutations of the string
local permutations = getPermutations(nums);
--Stop the timer
timer:stop();
--Print the results
io.write("The 1 millionth permutation is " .. permutations[NEEDED_PERM] .. '\n');
io.write("It took " .. timer:getSeconds() .. " seconds to run this algorithm\n");
--[[ Results:
The 1 millionth permutation is 2783915460
It took 50.175 seconds to run this algorithm
]]