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Row Coloring, 3 Colors

Difficulty: 1300 4000 ms 128 MB

combinatorics

Count the ways to color a row of N cells with 3 colors so that no two adjacent cells share a color, modulo 109+7.

Input: one integer N.

Output: the count mod 109+7.

Constraints:

  • 1 ≤ N ≤ 1018

Sample Tests

Input 1
1
Output 1
3
Input 2
2
Output 2
6
Input 3
3
Output 3
12

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