Superpermutation Almanac

n = 11

W-0079

A superpermutation on 11 symbols, found by Jay Pantone jaypantone. It beat the previous record, W-0063, by 30 letters, and is the record for n = 11.

Length
43,930,548
Repeated occurrences
19,768
Received
Oct 28, 202623:30:26 UTC
Begins 0123456789A01234567890A12345678901A23456789012A34567890123A45678901234A56789012345A67890123456A78901234567A89012345678A9…

Windows

43,930,538windows of 11 consecutive letters
=39,916,800distinct permutations, all 11! of them
+19,768repeated occurrences of a permutation
+3,993,970windows that are not permutations

How it was found

This word was obtained by optimizing Jakub Halfar’s selection X and starting arrangement within my superpermutation construction. We varied the relabelings and arrangement of its blocks, then used dynamic programming to optimize where the cyclic pieces were opened, minimizing the letters needed to join them.

Checking

Total check time: 2 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-2562892992a3da5b3ab552936ca7d1f2c088f88cb18a579d42369e2d1475c2c7b41 Compilerrustc 1.89.0 (29483883e 2025-08-04)

Download

Download Detour (.detour) 8.5 kB, or 43.9 MB decoded

Decode to text

# check it yourself
detour decode W-0079.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-0079.detour 43930548
./target/release/bitmapcheck 11 ../W-0079.detour 43930548
./target/release/wordhash 11 ../W-0079.detour 43930548

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 513,603 tokens: 1 START and 513,602 deviations. Deviations by weight, from 1 to 11: 19,768 · 136,619 · 357,010 · 9 · 63 · 40 · 25 · 44 · 18 · 4 · 2.