Superpermutation Almanac

n = 13

W-0036

A superpermutation on 13 symbols, found by Jay Pantone jaypantone. It beat the previous record, W-0031, by 49,732 letters, and was the record for n = 13 from Oct 1 until Oct 3, 2026, when W-0043 was 8 letters shorter.

Length
6,747,918,066
Repeated occurrences
1,693,436
Announced
Oct 1, 2026
Begins 0123456789ABC0123456789AB0C123456789AB01C23456789AB012C3456789AB0123C456789AB01234C56789AB012345C6789AB0123456C789AB0123…

Windows

6,747,918,054windows of 13 consecutive letters
=6,227,020,800distinct permutations, all 13! of them
+1,693,436repeated occurrences of a permutation
+519,203,818windows that are not permutations

How it was found

Local improvement by AI agents of the September 29 word.

Checking

Total check time: 1 min 54 s, including preparation but not time in the queue.

ProgramSourceResultTime
classcheck41928cceall 6,227,020,800 permutations appear, by rotation class48 s
bitmapcheck288b3f67agrees, by Lehmer rank31 s
wordhash94925fe4the SHA-256 of the word and of its mirror35 s
SHA-256c921da0739c08b395c91adfe96346835cf1e4b3866b1adf202e5ae503039be1f Compilerrustc 1.89.0 (29483883e 2025-08-04)

Download

Download Detour (.detour) 212.7 kB, or 6.7 GB decoded

Decode to text

# check it yourself
detour decode W-0036.detour - | tr -d '\n' | shasum -a 256
tar xzf checkers-rs-source.tar.gz && cd checkers-rs && cargo build --release --locked
./target/release/classcheck 13 ../W-0036.detour 6747918066
./target/release/bitmapcheck 13 ../W-0036.detour 6747918066
./target/release/wordhash 13 ../W-0036.detour 6747918066

Decoding needs detour; see the Detour format for how to build and install it. The checkers are in checkers-rs-source.tar.gz, which needs Rust 1.89 or later; each one decodes the file itself, so the word is never written out.

The file's header gives n = 13 and sync exponent 0. The file has 54,099,586 tokens: 1 START, 1 literal of 1 byte in all, and 54,099,584 deviations. Deviations by weight, from 1 to 13: 1,693,436 · 15,240,915 · 37,163,319 · 66 · 173 · 376 · 727 · 233 · 59 · 72 · 102 · 90 · 16.