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Bouncy Numbers

ℹ️Published on Friday, 30th December 2005, 06:00 pm; Solved by 26950;
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Working from left-to-right if no digit is exceeded by the digit to its left it is called an increasing number; for example, $134468$.

Similarly if no digit is exceeded by the digit to its right it is called a decreasing number; for example, $66420$.

We shall call a positive integer that is neither increasing nor decreasing a "bouncy" number; for example, $155349$.

Clearly there cannot be any bouncy numbers below one-hundred, but just over half of the numbers below one-thousand ($525$) are bouncy. In fact, the least number for which the proportion of bouncy numbers first reaches $50\%$ is $538$.

Surprisingly, bouncy numbers become more and more common and by the time we reach $21780$ the proportion of bouncy numbers is equal to $90\%$.

Find the least number for which the proportion of bouncy numbers is exactly $99\%$.



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