Hello Programmers In this post, you will know how to solve the Ambiguous Permutations Codechef Solution. The Problem Code is RECIPE.
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Problem
Some programming contest problems are really tricky: not only do they require a different output format from what you might have expected, but also the sample output does not show the difference. For an example, let us look at permutations.
A permutation of the integers 1 to n is an ordering of these integers. So the natural way to represent a permutation is to list the integers in this order. With n = 5, a permutation might look like 2, 3, 4, 5, 1.
However, there is another possibility of representing a permutation: You create a list of numbers where the i-th number is the position of the integer i in the permutation. Let us call this second possibility an inverse permutation. The inverse permutation for the sequence above is 5, 1, 2, 3, 4.
An ambiguous permutation is a permutation which cannot be distinguished from its inverse permutation. The permutation 1, 4, 3, 2 for example is ambiguous, because its inverse permutation is the same. To get rid of such annoying sample test cases, you have to write a program which detects if a given permutation is ambiguous or not.
Input Specification
The input contains several test cases.
The first line of each test case contains an integer n (1 ≤ n ≤ 100000). Then a permutation of the integers 1 to n follows in the next line. There is exactly one space character between consecutive integers. You can assume that every integer between 1 and n appears exactly once in the permutation.
The last test case is followed by a zero.
Output Specification
For each test case output whether the permutation is ambiguous or not. Adhere to the format shown in the sample output.
Sample Input
4 1 4 3 2 5 2 3 4 5 1 1 1 0
Sample Output
ambiguous not ambiguous ambiguous
Ambiguous Permutations CodeChef Solution in Python
n = int(input())
while(n != 0):
li = [int(i) for i in input().split()]
li1 = list('0' * len(li))
for i in range(len(li)):
li1[li[i] - 1] = i + 1
if(li == li1):
print("ambiguous")
else:
print("not ambiguous")
n = int(input()) Ambiguous Permutations CodeChef Solution in CPP
#include<iostream>
#include<stdio.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int n,a[100001],i;
while(1)
{
scanf("%d",&n);
if(n==0)break;
for(i=1;i<=n;i++)
scanf("%d",&a[i]);
for(i=1;i<=n;i++)
{
if(a[a[i]]!=i){printf("not ambiguous \n");break;}
if(i==n)printf("ambiguous \n");
}
}
return 0;
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