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function [] = Problem24()
%ProjectEuler/Octave/Problem24.m
%Matthew Ellison
% Created: 03-25-19
%Modified: 03-28-19
%What is the millionth lexicographic permutation of the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9?
%{
Copyright (C) 2019 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
GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
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%}
NEEDED_PERM = 1000000; %The number of the permutation that you need
%Setup the variables
nums = "0123456789";
%Start the time
startTime = clock();
%Get all permutations of the string
permutations = getPermutations(nums);
%Stop the timer
endTime = clock();
%Print the results
printf("The 1 millionth permutation is %s\n", permutations{NEEDED_PERM})
printf("It took %f second to run this algorithm\n", etime(endTime, startTime))
end %Problem24()
function [perms] = getPermutations(master, num = 1)
perms = {};
%Check if the number is out of bounds
if((num > size(master)(2)) || (num <= 0))
%Do nothing and return and empty list
perms;
%If this is the last possible recurse just return the current string
elseif(num == size(master)(2))
perms(end + 1) = master;
%If there are more possible recurses, recurse with the current permutations
else
temp = getPermutations(master, num + 1);
perms = {perms{:}, temp{:}};
%You need to swap the current letter with every possible letter after it
%The ones needed to swap before will happen automatically when the function recurses
for cnt = 1 : (size(master)(2) - num)
%Swap two elements
temp = master(num);
master(num) = master(num + cnt);
master(num + cnt) = temp;
%Get the permutations after swapping two elements
temp = getPermutations(master, num + 1);
perms = {perms{:}, temp{:}};
%Swap the elements back
temp = master(num);
master(num) = master(num + cnt);
master(num + cnt) = temp;
end
end
%The array is not necessarily in alpha-numeric order. So if this is the full array sort it before returning
if(num == 1)
perms = sort(perms);
end
end %getPermutations()
%{
Results:
The 1 millionth permutation is 2783915460
It took 433.922920 second to run this algorithm
%}