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2021-01-03

Happy New Year, one and all!

I think your links point to last yearâ€™s calendar puzzles. As for how to solve the puzzle on 21 December, - permutations of [1,...,n+1] having no substring [k,k+1] - is an option.

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2021-01-03

@(anonymous): Thanks, links corrected

Matthew
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