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Ring Arrangements

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December 8, 2005
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Problem Statement

Given eight distinguishable rings, let nn be the number of possible five-ring arrangements on the four fingers (not the thumb) of one hand. The order of rings on each finger is significant, but it is not required that each finger have a ring. Find the leftmost three nonzero digits of n.n.