Bruce,

If all of the numbers are positive (which may or may not be a good assumption), you (that's a rhetorical you <g>) could design it to short circuit and move on as soon as any combination of numbers exceeds the target...
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>Which is a total of 10 + 45 + 120 + 210 + 252 + 210 + 120 + 45 + 10 + 1 = 1,033 different possible sums that must all be checked, unless a "hit" is found and the loop can end sooner.
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>(If my math is correct, usually I let a program do the factorial & summing work :-)
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