Friday, July 15, 2011

Math Problem-Typesetting?! help?

In the olden days, type was set by hand with lead pieces. Each individual letter or number in each word had to be carefully put together. A printer wanted to print a list of whole numbers from 1 to 1000. If he had only 1000 of each of the digits from 0 to 9, how many numbers could he set before he ran out of some digit?

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