Superpermutation Almanac

n = 11

W-0047

A superpermutation on 11 symbols, found by Theo H.. It beat the previous record, W-0045, by 4 letters, and was the record for n = 11 on Oct 4, 2026, when W-0048 was 1 letter shorter.

Length
43,930,624
Repeated occurrences
18,816
Announced
Oct 4, 2026
Begins 0123456789A01234567890A12345678901A23456789012A34567890123A45678901234A56789012345A67890123456A78901234567A89012345678A9…

Windows

43,930,614windows of 11 consecutive letters
=39,916,800distinct permutations, all 11! of them
+18,816repeated occurrences of a permutation
+3,994,998windows that are not permutations

How it was found

Dynamic programme choosing where each of Pantone's closed trails is opened, including openings inside a 1-cycle (PR #6).

Checking

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

ProgramSourceResultTime
classcheck41928cceall 39,916,800 permutations appear, by rotation classunder 1 s
bitmapcheck288b3f67agrees, by Lehmer rank1 s
wordhash94925fe4the SHA-256 of the word and of its mirrorunder 1 s
SHA-25686d382328e6879b0583465406c18db87a5a7ae42a037a7af7449f66d357c4232 Compilerrustc 1.89.0 (29483883e 2025-08-04)

Download

Download Detour (.detour) 7.4 kB, or 43.9 MB decoded

Decode to text

# check it yourself
detour decode W-0047.detour - | tr -d '\n' | shasum -a 256
tar xzf checkers-rs-source.tar.gz && cd checkers-rs && cargo build --release --locked
./target/release/classcheck 11 ../W-0047.detour 43930624
./target/release/bitmapcheck 11 ../W-0047.detour 43930624
./target/release/wordhash 11 ../W-0047.detour 43930624

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 = 11 and sync exponent 0. The file has 488,862 tokens: 1 START, 1 literal of 1 byte in all, and 488,860 deviations. Deviations by weight, from 1 to 11: 18,816 · 131,556 · 338,397 · 33 · 8 · 2 · 1 · 39 · 7 · 1 · 0.