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N monkeys are invited to a party where they start dancing. They dance in a circular formation, very similar to a Gujarati Garba or a Drum Circle. The dance requires the monkeys to constantly change positions after every 1 second.
The change of position is not random & you, in the audience, observe a pattern. Monkeys are very disciplined & follow a specific pattern while dancing.
Consider N = 6, and an array monkeys = {3,6,5,4,1,2}.
This array (1-indexed) is the dancing pattern. The value at monkeys[i], indicates the new of position of the monkey who is standing at the ith position.
Given N & the array monkeys[ ], find the time after which all monkeys are in the initial positions for the 1st time.
Constraints
1<=t<=10 (test cases)
1<=N<=10000 (Number of monkeys)
Input Format
First line contains single integer t, denoting the number of test cases.
Each test case is as follows –
Integer N denoting the number of monkeys.
Next line contains N integer denoting the dancing pattern array, monkeys[].
Output
t lines,
Each line must contain a single integer T, where T is the minimum number of seconds after which all the monkeys are in their initial position.
Test Case
Explanation
Example 1
Input
1
6
3 6 5 4 1 2
Output
6
Explanation
Consider N = 6, and an array monkeys = {3,6,5,4,1,2}.
Suppose monkeys are a,b,c,d,e,f, & Initial position (at t = 0) -> a,b,c,d,e,f
At t = 1 -> e,f,a,d,c,b
a will move to 3rd position, b will move to 6th position, c will move to 5th position, d will move to 4th position, e will move to 1st position and f will move to 2nd position. Thus from a,b,c,d,e,f at t =0, we get e,f,a,d,c,b at t =1. Recursively applying same transpositions, we get following positions for different values of t.
At t = 2 -> c,b,e,d,a,f
At t = 3 -> a,f,c,d,e,b
At t = 4 -> e,b,a,d,c,f
At t = 5 -> c,f,e,d,a,b
At t = 6 -> a,b,c,d,e,f
Since at t = 6, we got the original position, therefore the answer is 6.
Below is the naive solution provided by Pawan Reddy.
def groovingmonkeys(n):
y=n
x=[0]*len(n)
c=0
while(x!=n):
c+=1
x=[0]*len(n)
for i in range(len(n)):
x[n[i]-1] = y[i]
y=x
return c
test=int(input())
num=int(input())
mon=list(map(int,input().split()))
print(groovingmonkeys(mon))
Optimized Solution
#include<stdio.h>
long long int monkeys(long long int a,long long int b);
int main()
{
long long int cases;
long long int num,i;
long long int res,c,te,te1;
scanf("%lld",&cases);
while(cases--)
{
scanf("%lld",&num);
long long int a[num];
for(i=0;i<num;i++)
{
scanf("%lld",&a[i]);
}
i=0;
res=1;
c=0;
while(i<=num-1)
{
te1=i;
c=0;
while(a[i]!=0)
{
te=i;
i=a[i]-1;
a[te]=0;
c+=1;
}
i=te1+1;
if(c!=0)
res=res*c/monkeys(res,c);
}
printf("%lld\n",res);
}
return 0;
}
long long int monkeys(long long int a,long long int b)
{
if(b==0)
return a;
else
return monkeys(b,a%b);
}

code is here:
https://arjunpinpointer.blogspot.com/2020/04/grooving-monkeys.html