document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1208378>Question 1208378</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> How many 7-digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, provided that any two distinct digits in this number are consecutive? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "How many 7-digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, <BR>\n" );
document.write( "provided that any two distinct digits in this number are consecutive?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The formulation of the problem is murky and unclear.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Looking at this problem, I see that a person who created it (math composer) <BR>\n" );
document.write( "has no necessary skills to make this post as correct, clear, accurate,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "interesting and meaningful mathematical problem.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I also do not see an attractive mathematical idea behind it.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Therefore, I prefer do not touch it and do not participate.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Had it be differently, I would (probably) think differently.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Edwin, to your post as @mccravyedwin, you may have your own view and opinion, <BR>\n" );
document.write( "and I may have my own view and opinion, and they not necessary should be the same.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "I respect your opinion and do not impose my opinion.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Regarding their writing, in our days, any Internet browser has a built-in translator,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "which provides perfect (or almost perfect) translation.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So, if their wording was not perfect, it was only because they did not work on it, and it was their fault.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "To guess the thoughts in their head is not my task and is not my specialty/desire/function here.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "If they can not formulate perfectly and accurately, it means that they can not think accurately;<BR>\n" );
document.write( "in turn, it means that they are not ready to understand the solutions (and even formulations) <BR>\n" );
document.write( "of such problems, at all.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "One wise man said once that if people can nor speak English clearly, <BR>\n" );
document.write( "it is often because they can not speak clearly in their native language.\r<BR>\n" );
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