ABBCCA is a perfect square without a leading zero, and C=2B.
Find the letter to digit assignment.
There aren't many possibilities to check: 36, fewer if A doesn't equal B or C.
I used my calculator to make a table with
sqrt(011220+100001x)
with x from 1 to 9
and planned to increment the first number to 022440 etc.
But the answer popped up quickly: 511225 = 715^2
A near miss was 444884 = 667^2 + 1
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Posted by Jer
on 2024-08-28 08:02:20 |