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Question from Hadi, a student:

A number is called a "decreasing number" if each digit in the number is less than the digit to its left.
For example, 87420 is a deceasing number. How many five-digit
decreasing numbers are there?

Hadi,

Pick five distinct digits. How many decreasing numbers can you make with these five digits?

Claude

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