USACO 2023 February Contest, Platinum
Problem 2. Problem Setting
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**Note: The memory limit for this problem is 512MB, twice the default.**
Farmer John created $N$ ($1\le N\le 10^5$) problems. He then recruited $M$ ($1\le M\le 20$) test-solvers, each of which rated every problem as "easy" or "hard."
His goal is now to create a problemset arranged in increasing order of difficulty, consisting of some subset of his $N$ problems arranged in some order. There must exist no pair of problems such that some test-solver thinks the problem later in the order is easy but the problem earlier in the order is hard.
Count the number of distinct nonempty problemsets he can form, modulo $10^9+7$.
INPUT FORMAT (input arrives from the terminal / stdin):
The first line contains $N$ and $M$.The next $M$ lines each contain a string of length $N$. The $i$th character of this string is E if the test-solver thinks the $i$th problem is easy, or H otherwise.
OUTPUT FORMAT (print output to the terminal / stdout):
The number of distinct problemsets FJ can form, modulo $10^9+7$.SAMPLE INPUT:
3 1 EHE
SAMPLE OUTPUT:
9
The nine possible problemsets are as follows:
[1] [1,2] [1,3] [1,3,2] [2] [3] [3,1] [3,2] [3,1,2]
Note that the order of the problems within the problemset matters.
SAMPLE INPUT:
10 6 EHEEEHHEEH EHHHEEHHHE EHEHEHEEHH HEHEEEHEEE HHEEHEEEHE EHHEEEEEHE
SAMPLE OUTPUT:
33
SCORING:
- Inputs 3-4: $M=1$
- Inputs 5-14: $M\le 16$
- Inputs 15-22: No additional constraints.
Problem credits: Benjamin Qi