We put our cryptographers to work on this apparently coded question, and asked them
to decipher what it's trying to ask. They struggled and debated among themselves for
quite some time. Then, just before lunch, they agreed that there is an 83% probability
that the question is:
"How many 3-digit numbers can be made with the common decimal digits zero through 9 ?"
The largest one is 999, so there would be 999 of them, but the first 99 don't count, because
the numbers 1 - 99 have less than 3 digits.
So there are (999 - 99) = 900 different 3-digit numbers.
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The answer is 10P3 = 10!/(10-3)! = 10*9*8 = 720
you can image the 3 digits as a counter 0 0 1 0 0 2 ... ... ... 9 9 8 9 9 9 every digit uses 100 times a 6..... 100*3 digits = 300 sixes :)
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