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Bogosort

Problem code: BOGOSORT

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Recently Johnny have learned bogosort sorting algorithm. He thought that it is too ineffective. So he decided to improve it. As you may know this algorithm shuffles the sequence randomly until it is sorted. Johnny decided that we don't need to shuffle the whole sequence every time. If after the last shuffle several first elements end up in the right places we will fix them and don't shuffle those elements furthermore. We will do the same for the last elements if they are in the right places. For example, if the initial sequence is (3, 5, 1, 6, 4, 2) and after one shuffle Johnny gets (1, 2, 5, 4, 3, 6) he will fix 1, 2 and 6 and proceed with sorting (5, 4, 3) using the same algorithm. Johnny hopes that this optimization will significantly improve the algorithm. Help him calculate the expected amount of shuffles for the improved algorithm to sort the sequence of the first n natural numbers given that no elements are in the right places initially.

Input

The first line of input file is number t - the number of test cases. Each of the following t lines hold single number n - the number of elements in the sequence.

Constraints

1 <= t <= 150
2 <= n <= 150

Output

For each test case output the expected amount of shuffles needed for the improved algorithm to sort the sequence of first n natural numbers in the form of irreducible fractions.

Example

Input:
3
2
6
10

Output:
2
1826/189
877318/35343


Author: spooky
Date Added: 6-08-2010
Time Limit: 2 sec
Source Limit: 10000 Bytes
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@admin he will fix 4 also

tj91 @ 18 Feb 2011 11:50 PM
@admin he will fix 4 also

for n=2 shuffles=1 but here

tj91 @ 18 Feb 2011 11:53 PM

for n=2

shuffles=1

but here it says 2  help!!

The question isn't very well

triplem @ 19 Feb 2011 05:18 AM

The question isn't very well worded, but when it talks about first/last elements, a number is only fixed if every number before it is also correct, or every number after it is correct. Not the case with the 4.

Half the time shuffling (2,1) you will get (2,1), so the answer certainly isn't 1.

I could not understand the

arnab_das @ 23 Jun 2011 01:47 PM
I could not understand the output format... what fraction is said about?

@admin please any help??

arnab_das @ 24 Jun 2011 10:15 PM
@admin please any help??

I could not understand the

nyrajiv @ 23 Jul 2011 01:10 PM
I could not understand the output format. Please could you explain us about the fraction for output as mention above.

what is the shuffling

devanshukashyap @ 28 Aug 2011 01:01 PM
what is the shuffling criteria?

can anyone explain more bout

prateekhalwe @ 30 Aug 2011 11:56 PM
can anyone explain more bout o/p format..

admin please explain input

akshayiitr11 @ 8 Sep 2011 12:15 AM
admin please explain input case 6 and 10.also input case 2 looks wrong as the output should have been 1

Could some one solve it with

abhinav3295 @ 14 Sep 2011 05:35 AM
Could some one solve it with C/c++? I am getting a very big recurrence which I could not solve any further

could anyone please explain

dakeee @ 29 Jan 2012 03:50 PM
could anyone please explain how did 1826/189 come

@admins Please clarify the

mtutnid @ 8 Apr 2012 12:22 PM
@admins Please clarify the problem. Egz with 2 Start is at 2 1 There is a 50/50 chance for 2 1 and 1 2 and this goes on forever (if you get 2 1 there again is a 50/50 chance for 2 1 and 1 2). See the problem in your problem? The answer can not be a fraction. It has to be a chance in % that it will be solved on the x-th randomization. Or am I wrong? If so, please make a tutorial.

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