Parity
The number 1, 2, 3, ..., n are written in sequence. You're allowed to permute any two numbers. We say that the number k is cool if it is possible to do k permutations and end with the original sequence. How many cool numbers there is between 1 and 1000 including 1 and 1000.
The answer is 500.
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