Range of five-digit numbers with distinct digit-pair sums
Question
Call a five-digit integer good if no two different pairs of its digits have the same sum (for example, the three-digit would qualify). If and are the smallest and largest good five-digit integers, what is ?
Short answer
88505. Build greedily. Largest: are fine, fails (), works, then and fail and works, so . Smallest: , then fails, works, and fail, works, so and .
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