See in the J Wiki the essay:
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Nonincreasing_Odometer

See the following related problem in MathsChallenge.Net:
http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=view&id=113



----- Original Message -----
From: Eugene McDonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, January 27, 2007 7:12 pm
Subject: [Jprogramming] Puzzle

> Suppose we have the six digits 0 1 2 3 4 5, and we wish to have a  
> table of all length-5 non-decreasing sequences from 0 0 0 0 0   
> through 5 5 5 5 5. There are 252 rows if I have counted correctly.
> 
> I believe row 100 is 0 2 2 5 5, and row 200 is 2 2 3 3 3.
> 
> Is there a simple way to create this table?
> 
> Building the table of 6^6 rows and five columns and winnowing it 
> down  
> is not permitted.
> 
> Eugene
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