YODA - Yoda Goes Palindromic !
According to a very famous web site, which in this case we will trust, defines a palindrome
as ‘a word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward’. For
example, the phrase A man, a plan, a canal, Panama! is a palindrome. Actually, writing
texts consisting of only palindromes is part of a literary technique called constrained writing.
Now imagine the wise Yoda, the master of all, whose proficiency putting words together
in sentences is one of his well-known abilities. He is now interested in enriching his long-
lasting, and maybe boring, inactivity periods by ‘composing’ palindromic sentences. That
is, he has plans to use only palindromic sentences for his chats. For this matter, he needs
to practice. The first task in his practice plan is to count all the palindromes that can be
arranged out of a collection of characters.
Today, you will be Yoda’s assistant for this first task. Your only mission is to, given
a sequence of characters, determine how many palindromes can be obtained with some
of the characters in the sequence; you will only take into account uppercase or lowercase
letters. Put in other way, you need to determine how many permutations of a give sequence
of characters are palindromes. Your solution will help definitively master Yoga.
Input
The input consists of several test cases, one per line. For each test case, the input consist of a sequence of ASCII characters.
Output
For each test case you should print in a single line, and according to the order of the test cases, the total number of palindromes generated by the input sequence of ASCII characters. For your purpose, you should only consider uppercase or lowercase characters appearing in the input; any other character should be ignored in the calculations. Uppercase and lowercase characters are not considered different; for example, A and a should not be considered different. In any case, the total number of palindromes will not exceed the number e^43 , where e is approximately 2.71828. Remember that the empty sequence is a palindrome itself.
Example
Input: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama! arD,R!A B.a.C1/ 12[’;. =1 Output: 15120 2 0 1
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Tamilselvan:
2010-08-22 10:14:55
couldn't understand the question. What we actually need to do ? find all possible palindromes ? r something else
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2010-04-13 23:50:55
self assumption : 10^5 |
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2010-04-13 23:16:19
there is no upper bound of the length of the string? |
Added by: | Daniel Gómez Didier |
Date: | 2008-11-18 |
Time limit: | 3.950s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: ERL JS-RHINO |
Resource: | 2007 U.Nacional - Circuito de Maratones ACIS / REDIS |