Strings Avoiding 210

Difficulty: 2100 4000 ms 128 MB

combinatorics kmp matrix-exponentiation

Count the strings of length N over {0, 1, 2} with no contiguous occurrence of 210, modulo 10⁹+7.

Input: one integer N.

Output: the count mod 10⁹+7.

Constraints:

• 1 ≤ N ≤ 10¹⁸

Sample Tests

2

9

3

26

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