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Send less money (Posted on 2011-07-11)

Each of the capital letters in bold denotes a different base B digit from 0 to B-1. None of the letters can contain any leading zero.

SEND + LESS = MONEY

Determine the minimum value of B such that the total number of solutions of the above equation is a nonzero perfect square. What is the next smallest value of B with this property?

Submitted by K Sengupta

Rating: 5.0000 (1 votes)

Solution: (Hide)

Dej Mar found the minimum value as base 15 with 13² solutions.
No one else tried for any higher base value.

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	Subject	Author	Date
	Part 1...	Dej Mar	2011-07-12 04:25:23

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