We need to find the number of positive integers up to 500 that have non-repeating digits.
Case 1: 1-digit numbers There are 9 possible 1-digit numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. So, there are 9 such numbers.
Case 2: 2-digit numbers For 2-digit numbers, the first digit can be any digit from 1 to 9 (9 choices), and the second digit can be any of the remaining 9 digits (0-9, excluding the first digit). Therefore, the number of 2-digit numbers with non-repeating digits is:
9×9=81
Case 3: 3-digit numbers (up to 500) For 3-digit numbers, the first digit must be from 1 to 4 (4 choices), the second digit can be any of the remaining 9 digits, and the third digit can be any of the remaining 8 digits. Therefore, the number of 3-digit numbers with non-repeating digits is:
4×9×8=288
Total The total number of positive integers up to 500 with non-repeating digits is:
9+81+288=378
Thus, the correct answer is 378.
For any natural number $k$, let $a_k = 3^k$. The smallest natural number $m$ for which \[ (a_1)^1 \times (a_2)^2 \times \dots \times (a_{20})^{20} \;<\; a_{21} \times a_{22} \times \dots \times a_{20+m} \] is:
The given sentence is missing in the paragraph below. Decide where it best fits among the options 1, 2, 3, or 4 indicated in the paragraph.
Sentence: While taste is related to judgment, with thinkers at the time often writing, for example, about “judgments of taste” or using the two terms interchangeably, taste retains a vital link to pleasure, embodiment, and personal specificity that is too often elided in post-Kantian ideas about judgment—a link that Arendt herself was working to restore.
Paragraph: \(\underline{(1)}\) Denneny focused on taste rather than judgment in order to highlight what he believed was a crucial but neglected historical change. \(\underline{(2)}\) Over the course of the seventeenth century and early eighteenth century, across Western Europe, the word taste took on a new extension of meaning, no longer referring specifically to gustatory sensation and the delights of the palate but becoming, for a time, one of the central categories for aesthetic—and ethical—thinking. \(\underline{(3)}\) Tracing the history of taste in Spanish, French, and British aesthetic theory, as Denneny did, also provides a means to recover the compelling and relevant writing of a set of thinkers who have been largely neglected by professional philosophy. \(\underline{(4)}\)