(In reply to
Working Backwards (A start) by Steve Herman)
Given N = 4, O = 6, and (U,G,A,I) must be a subset of (0,1,5,7,9), then there is only one solution to the alphametic:
U = 7, G = 1, A = 9, I = 5.
To confirm, 7 + (16)*(94) = 1511.
As I mentioned in my earlier comment, the problem is that just knowing that I = 5 doesn't tell us what the other values are, unless we assume that none of the letters is 0, because there are other solutions, for example:
0 + (26)*(97) = 2522
0 + (67)*(98) = 6566
and perhaps more of a stretch
4 + (08)*(62) = 0500
2 + (06)*(83) = 0500
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Posted by tomarken
on 2022-03-31 11:12:03 |