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Problem 427: n-sequences

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A sequence of integers $S = \{s_i\}$ is called an $n$-sequence if it has $n$ elements and each element $s_i$ satisfies $1 ≤ s_i ≤ n$. Thus there are $n^n$ distinct $n$-sequences in total.

For example, the sequence $S = \{1, 5, 5, 10, 7, 7, 7, 2, 3, 7\}$ is a 10-sequence.

For any sequence $S$, let $L(S)$ be the length of the longest contiguous subsequence of $S$ with the same value. For example, for the given sequence $S$ above, $L(S) = 3$, because of the three consecutive 7's.

Let $f(n) = \sum L(S)$ for all $n$-sequences $S$.

For example, $f(3) = 45$, $f(7) = 1\,403\,689$ and $f(11) = 481\,496\,895\,121$.

Find $f(7\,500\,000)\bmod 1\,000\,000\,009$.

--hints--

nSequences() should return 97138867.

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assert.strictEqual(nSequences(), 97138867);

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function nSequences() {

  return true;
}

nSequences();

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// solution required