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How many distinct seven-digit numbers exist? It is assumed that the first digit cannot be zero.

We call a natural number “fancy”, if it is made up only of odd digits. How many four-digit “fancy” numbers are there?

We are given 51 two-digit numbers – we will count one-digit numbers as two-digit numbers with a leading 0. Prove that it is possible to choose 6 of these so that no two of them have the same digit in the same column.

In a volleyball tournament teams play each other once. A win gives the team 1 point, a loss 0 points. It is known that at one point in the tournament all of the teams had different numbers of points. How many points did the team in second last place have at the end of the tournament, and what was the result of its match against the eventually winning team?

Prove that amongst any 11 different decimal fractions of infinite length, there will be two whose digits in the same column – 10ths, 100s, 1000s, etc – coincide (are the same) an infinite number of times.

The number of permutations of a set of \(n\) elements is denoted by \(P_n\).

Prove the equality \(P_n = n!\).