Problem 2848. Digital Neighbourhood

Created by Jan Orwat

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Given a natural number reorder its digits to create another number, closest to the given one.

Examples:

123 gives 132,
1 gives 10,
1099 gives 991

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Last Solution submitted on Dec 13, 2025

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Mai Zhang on 5 Aug 2020

Just commenting to earn the badge, sorry for spamming lol

Dyuman Joshi on 17 Jan 2023

Would be interesting to see a solution approach

- without using perms()
- on cases with big numbers where using perms is not viable.

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