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A nonautonomous discrete dynamical system given by a sequence of compact metric spaces \((X_{i})_{i=1}^{\infty}\) and a sequence of continuous maps \((f_{i})_{i=1}^{\infty}\), \(f_{i}: X_{i}\to X_{i+1}\) is considered. In the previous paper [Random Comput. Dyn. 4, 205-233 (1996; Zbl 0909.54012)] under assumptions that all the spaces \(X_{i}\) coincide and \(f\) is a piecewise monotone continuous selfmap the authors proved the formula for the topological entropy: \[ h(f)=\lim_{n\to \infty}\frac{1}{n}\log c_{n}, \] where \(c_{n}\) denotes the number of pieces of monotonicity of \(f^{n}\). In the present paper the authors obtain analogues of this result for the more general situation when \(X_{i}\) is a compact real interval for any \(i\) and every \(f_{i}\) is piecewise monotone. It is proved that if the system satisfies one of three additional conditions then the topological entropy of the system can be represented in terms of the number of pieces of monotonicity of \(f_{n}\circ\dots\circ f_{2}\circ f_{1}\).