Suggestions for potentially simpler and more efficient code.
Create a ruple of the 5th powers of the 10 digits and look them up (should be faster than recomputing the 5th power each time) (0, 1, 16, ... )
Instead of trying all permutations of digits, use combinations. 12345 will yield the same sum-of-5th-powers as 23154. Compute the sum then see if it is composed of the source digits.
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