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Find the Key (Posted on 2024-10-20) Difficulty: 3 of 5
MAI is the square of ST.
And:
                               
            . . . . . A 
                  M A I 
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          . . . . . . .
        . . . . . . .
      . . E N . . . 
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      P R I N T E M P S 

No Solution Yet Submitted by K Sengupta    
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Solution solution | Comment 1 of 2
clearvars
for st=12:sqrt(1000)
  stStr=num2str(st);
  if length(unique(stStr))==2
    maiV=st^2; mai=num2str(maiV); 
    if length(unique(mai))==3
      m=mai(1); a=mai(2); i=mai(3);
      mV=str2double(m);
      aV=str2double(a);
      iV=str2double(i);
      for begin=10000:999999
        m1=str2double([num2str(begin) a]);
        p1=num2str(m1*iV);
        if length(p1)==7
           p2=num2str(m1*aV);
           if length(p2)==7
              p3=num2str(m1*mV);
              if length(p3)==7
                en=p3(3:4);
                if length(unique([en mai]))==5
                  pr=num2str(maiV*m1);
                  if p3(4)==pr(4) && p3(3)==pr(6)
                    if ~ismember(a,pr) && pr(1)==pr(8)
                  if length(pr)==9 && length(unique([pr a]))==9
                    disp([m1 maiV maiV*m1])
                  end
                    end
                  end
                end
              end
           end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end
    
>> findTheKey
          multiplicands     product
      341737         576   196840512
      794302         729   579046158
      
The second "solution" is spurious, as the third from the last digit of the product does not match the first digit of the second multiplicand, something the program didn't check for.

Reconstructing the multiplication:

      
>> m1=341737
m1 =
      341737
 
>> m1*6
ans =
     2050422
>> m1*7
ans =
     2392159
>> m1*5
ans =
     1708685
>>     

Arranging:

      341737
         576
   ---------         
     2050422
    2392159
   1708685 
   ---------   
   196840512

  Posted by Charlie on 2024-10-21 10:47:51
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