LeetCode 60, Hard. Topics: Math, Recursion. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 16 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
The set [1, 2, 3, ..., n] contains a total of n! unique permutations.
By listing and labeling all of the permutations in order, we get the following sequence for n = 3:
"123"
"132"
"213"
"231"
"312"
"321"
Given n and k, return the kth permutation sequence.
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Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
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Last modified on September 7, 2026