Is case sensitivity important?

Question

Tom is going to implement a new programming language of his invention. But before actually starting working on it, he wants to know whether his language should be case sensitive or not.

On one hand, case insensitivity seems more easy to implement to him, but he worries that it could cause a lack in the possibilities of combinations of characters that form a variable, meaning that longer variable names should then be used to avoid naming clashes (for an example, you can use Hello, HEllo, heLLo and a bunch of other possibilities if the language is case sensitive, but only HELLO if not).

But Tom is a meticulous person, so just a worry isn't enough for him. He wants to know the numbers.

The challenge

Write a function (or a full program if your language doesn't support them) that, given an integer n as the input, outputs (or returns) the difference in the number of permutations possible for a string of length n with case sensitivity and without.

In Tom's language, variable names can include all alphabet letters, underscores and, starting from the second character, digits.

Testcases

Input (length of the variable) -> Output (difference between the possibilities with case sensitivity and the possibilities with case insensitivity)
0 -> 0
1 -> 26
2 -> 2340
5 -> 784304586
8 -> 206202813193260
9 -> 13057419408922746

Non-competing C++ reference implementation

void diff(int n) {
    long long total[2] = {0, 0}; //array holding the result for case insensivity ([0]) and case sensitivity ([1])

    for (int c = 1; c <= 2; c ++) //1 = insensitivity, 2 = sensitivity
        for (int l = 1; l <= n; l ++) //each character of the name
            if (l == 1)
                total[c - 1] = 26 * c + 1; //first character can't be a number
            else
                total[c - 1] *= 26 * c + 1 + 10; //starting from the second character, characters can include numbers

    std::cout << total[1] - total[0] << std::endl;
}

Scoring

Tom likes golf, so the shortest program in bytes wins.

Note

It's okay if maybe the last two testcases aren't right because of numerical precision. After all, I am not even sure my code handled number 9 correctly.

Answer 1

JavaScript (ES7), 43 bytes

f=(n,a=53,b=27)=>n?--n?f(n,a*63,b*37):a-b:0

<input type=number value=0 min=0 max=9 style=width:4ch oninput=o.textContent=f(+this.value)><div id=o>0</div>

Not reduces day today - 55 bytes.

Answer 2

TSQL, 41 bytes

DECLARE @ INT=10

PRINT 53*POWER(63.,@-1)-27*POWER(37.,@-1)

Fiddle

Answer 3

Jelly, 16 15 bytes

“~J“6j”OH*"’ÆḊḞ

Try it online! or verify all test cases.

How it works

“~J“6j”OH*"’ÆḊḞ  Main link. Argument: n

“~J“6j”          Yield ['~J', '6j'].
       O         Ordinal; replace the characters with it code points.
                 This yields [[126, 74], [54, 106]].
        H        Halve, yielding [[63, 37], [27, 53]].
           ’     Yield n-1.
         *"      Exponentiation (zipwith); elevate 63 and 37 to the power n-1.
            ÆḊ   Take the determinant of the matrix
                 [[63 ** (n-1), 37 ** (n-1)], [27, 53]], thus yielding
                 63 ** (n-1) * 53 - 37 ** (n-1) * 27.
              Ḟ  Floor; round the result down to the nearest integer.
                 This is required for n = 0.

Answer 4

Java, 77 76 Bytes

O(1) solution, no loop involved

long x(long n){return 53*(long)Math.pow(63,n-1)-27*(long)Math.pow(37,n-1);}

Answer 5

JavaScript (ES6) 47

n=>n&&eval("for(a=53,b=27;--n;a*=63)b*=37;a-b")

Note: the values are correct up to the 53 bits of precision of javascript numbers.

Test

F=n=>n&&eval("for(a=53,b=27;--n;a*=63)b*=37;a-b")

for(i=0;i<=10;i++)O.textContent+=i+' '+F(i)+'\n'

<pre id=O></pre>

Answer 6

MATL, 17 16 bytes

37iqY"27vt26+hpd

Try it online!

Last test case (input 9) is not exact due to numerical precision.

Explanation

37      % Push number 37
iq      % Input number n and subtract 1
Y"      % Row array [37 ...37] of size n-1
27v     % Concatenate 27 vertically. Gives column array [37; ... 37; 27]
t26+    % Duplicate and add 26. Gives column array [63; ... 63; 53]
h       % Concatenate horizontallty. Gives 2D array [37 63; ... 37 63; 27 53]
p       % Product of each column
d       % Difference of the two values. Implicitly display

Answer 7

Python 3, 36 bytes

lambda n:n and 53*63**~-n-27*37**~-n

An anonymous function that takes input via argument and returns the output.

Hooray for operator precedence!

How it works

lambda n:   Function with input string length n
n and ...   Base case: return 0 if n=0

(Case sensitive)

53*...      The first character can be any of [a-z], [A-Z] and _ , giving 53 possibilities
...63**~-n  63^(n-1): the remaining n-1 characters can be any of above and [0-9], giving
            63 possibilities

(Case insensitive)

27*...      The first character can be any of [A-Z] and _ , giving 27 possibilities
...37**~-n  37^(n-1): the remaining n-1 characters can be any of above and [0-9], giving
            37 possibilities
...-...     Subtract the case insensitive value from the case sensitive value
:...        Return the above

Try it on Ideone

Answer 8

Pyth, 16 bytes

L*b^+TbtQ-y53y27

Try it here!

Works the same as my Pyke answer

Answer 9

Factor, 54 bytes

[ 1 - [ 63 swap ^ 53 * ] [ 37 swap ^ 27 * ] bi - ⌊ ]

Test output (too lazy to make a test suite right now)

To 100 because I can:

0   0
1   26
2   2340
3   173394
4   11884860
5   784304586
6   50726849940
7   3244471004034
8   206202813193260
9   13057419408922746
10  825083183338785540
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12  3283878468805254213660
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Answer 10

dc, 19 bytes

1-d63r^53*r37r^27*-

This is just a difference of two exponentials, 53 × 63^(n-1) - 27 × 37^(n-1). The special case of zero falls out naturally, as dc starts with a precision of 0, meaning that x^-1 == 0 for all positive x.

As normal for dc, input is taken from top of stack, and output is pushed to top of stack. For a full program, enclose between ? and p to make a pipeline filter.

Test output

$ for i in {0..30}; do printf '%2d -> %s\n' "$i" `./85108.dc <<<$i`; done
 0 -> 0
 1 -> 26
 2 -> 2340
 3 -> 173394
 4 -> 11884860
 5 -> 784304586
 6 -> 50726849940
 7 -> 3244471004034
 8 -> 206202813193260
 9 -> 13057419408922746
10 -> 825083183338785540
11 -> 52071473691679633074
12 -> 3283878468805254213660
13 -> 207009241705220196670506
14 -> 13046203459736972095009140
15 -> 822081803558828931061964514
16 -> 51797480091236011152730146060
17 -> 3263475325027970876967575323866
18 -> 205607606410125945699743561920740
19 -> 12953599658372394455762938112142354
20 -> 816088635295235866150191568376990460
21 -> 51414022725857535138635748098295218826
22 -> 3239099663712558709867478263942757120340
23 -> 204063879397281956578587897577149556950594
24 -> 12856046623614221305157697924464388847546860
25 -> 809931759486357889731081403194103267502851386
26 -> 51025731268991039110785546457483836346653407940
27 -> 3214622195536403670115403894902928918116194213234
28 -> 202521239965622254844299280697898069287570327415260
29 -> 12758839658766868529390921590771079620628184030477546
30 -> 803806955516821376897030535770307562553491969842783540

Performance is reasonable for small n, but does start to tail off once it reaches a few hundred thousand or so:

   1024:   0.00s
   2048:   0.00s
   4096:   0.01s
   8192:   0.04s
  16384:   0.12s
  32768:   0.38s
  65536:   1.16s
 131072:   3.48s
 262144:  10.41s
 524288:  30.63s
1048576:  93.70s

That last example does produce a 1941435-digit result, so maybe it's not too bad for all that.

Answer 11

Pyke, 17 15 bytes

53[DT+Qt^*)27[-

Try it here!

  [DT+Qt^*)     - [ = lambda a: a*(a+10)^(input-1) 
53[        27[- - [53)-[27)