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By samadeep, history, 13 months ago, In English

Permuation Question : Number of Strings with no K consequetive equal letters given the string is made of lower case alphabets

Read here : Explanation It has beautiful solution using recurrence formulaes.

Basically the Recurrence is :
if k == n:    ways[n] = (power(26,k) - 26)
if n <= k - 1:   ways[n] = power(26,n)
else ways[n] = (countValid(n-1,k) + countValid(n-k,k))

You need to take care of modular arithmetic of course as the numbers get really large BTW it was there in Atlassain OA — best OA ever

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WHy the downvote my friends ?

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I upvoted.

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is this blog really necessary?

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    Its actually something i found interesting as a problem for understanding why permutations and combinations using binomial coefficients are slower than recursive techniques

    Ofcourse on necessity i have no comments its just that i found this interesting Any criticism is welcome.