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The 7 unique letters of the word PERPLEXUS are permuted in all possible ways and then the new “words” are listed alphabetically.

What "word" is at position 2020 in this list? .

No Solution Yet Submitted by Ady TZIDON    
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re: A little more detail please? Comment 5 of 5 |
(In reply to A little more detail please? by Steven Lord)

My method was very close to xdog's. The term "rotation" was to imply iterating alphabetically through the "remaining" unique letters of PERPLEXUS, through the affected columns left-to-right.
The base-10 value of 2019 (for the 2020th position, the first position represented as the value 0) written in factorial-base would be 2440110.

E0 E0 E0 E0 L0 L0 L0
L1 L1 L1 L. R1 S1 ..
P2 R2 R2 R. S. .. ..
R. S3 S3 S. .. .. ..
S. U4 X4 .. .. .. ..
U. X. .. .. .. .. ..
X. .. .. .. .. .. ..
-P -U -X -E -R -S -L


  Posted by Dej Mar on 2020-08-24 19:58:55

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