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Comfortable Distance

 Published on Saturday, 24th December 2011, 01:00 pm; Solved by 820;
Difficulty: Level 23 [61%]

Problem 364

There are $N$ seats in a row. $N$ people come after each other to fill the seats according to the following rules:

  1. If there is any seat whose adjacent seat(s) are not occupied take such a seat.
  2. If there is no such seat and there is any seat for which only one adjacent seat is occupied take such a seat.
  3. Otherwise take one of the remaining available seats.
Let $T(N)$ be the number of possibilities that $N$ seats are occupied by $N$ people with the given rules.
The following figure shows $T(4)=8$.
0364_comf_dist.gif

We can verify that $T(10) = 61632$ and $T(1\,000) \bmod 100\,000\,007 = 47255094$.

Find $T(1\,000\,000) \bmod 100\,000\,007$.



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