Question

I have to evaluate the following formula for permutations with repeated objects

n!/(r1! * r2! * r3! * ......... * rn!)

wheren <= 500 and 1 <= ri <= 10 (there are n objects in total out of which r1 are alike of 1 kind , r2 are alike of 2nd kind and so on and the formula indicates the number of permutations of such objects).

I need an efficient coding solution for this because working with big integers in Java doesn’t prove to be fruitful for large cases.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can do this in java by using

public class Permutation

designed to achieve a kind of your problem.

See this link for your reference

OR

like this :

private static Double calculatePermutationEntropy(List<Double> values, int baseOrder) {
 int valuesSize = values.size();
 if (baseOrder >= valuesSize + 1) {
   throw new RuntimeException("The size of the values is bigger than the order");
 }

 List<String> result = new ArrayList<String>();
 // iterate over the input
 for (int i = 0; i < valuesSize - baseOrder + 1; i++) {
   List<Double> neightbors = values.subList(i, i + baseOrder);

   List<Double> orderedValues = new ArrayList<Double>(neightbors);

   String window = "";
   for (int j = 0; j < neightbors.size(); j++) {
     // add the indexes in a string representation
     window += orderedValues.indexOf(neightbors.get(j));
   }
 result.add(window);
 }
 // use the shannon entropy calculation to get the result
 return calculateShannonEntropy(result);
}

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