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On her way to ChefLand, Marichka noticed $10^K$ road signs (numbered $0$ through $10^K - 1$). For each valid $i$, the sign with number $i$ had the integer $i$ written on one side and $10^K-i-1$ written on the other side. Now, Marichka is wondering — how many road signs have exactly two distinct decimal digits written on them (on both sides in total)? Since this number may be large, compute it m

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