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Subject Combinatorial countingLevel Senior–Staff~25 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

A derangement of n distinct items is a permutation in which no item appears in its original position. Given n (0 <= n <= 10^6) and a modulus mod (>= 2), return the number of derangements of n items, modulo mod. By convention there is exactly one derangement of 0 items (the empty arrangement) and zero derangements of 1 item. For example, 3 items have 2 derangements.

Implement
count_derangements(n: int, mod: int) → int
Examples
in[3,1000000007]out2
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