Bijection between powerset and increasing-ordered tuples

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I'm trying to write a formal proof that there exists a bijection between two sets,

Namely, If I take $E$ a set of integers and $(x_i)_{i\in\{1,\dots,n\}}$ a sequence of elements of $E$ sorted in strictly (that is no duplicates) increasing order, then the mapping defined by :

$$\{x_1,\dots,x_n\}\mapsto (x_1,\dots,x_n)$$ where the result is the ordered $n$-tuple, should be a bijection.

I wrote down what sorted in increasing order means :

$$\forall i \in \{1,\dots,n-1\},\quad x_i<x_{i+1}$$

It follows clearly that $E$ must contain (shifting if necessary) $\{1,\dots,n\}$ for this to work, so we can assume $E=\{1,\dots,m\}$ with $m\geq n$

But I don't know how to go on with the proof.

Any help will be appreciated

thanks!