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		somenameforme 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof If you're not making some joke that I'm missing it's just 10^4 = 10000, which is a just a fancier way of saying 0000-9999.

fc417fc802 8 months ago [–]

10^4 permutations. Which you then permute again except the second time you're overlapping them to search for the shortest possible sequence.

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