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Neither a borrower nor a lender be, (Posted on 2014-07-01) |
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Despite the advice given by Polonius we
sometimes need to "borrow" during the subtraction process, so while 345-122 is achieved without "borrowing", 322-145 needs two acts of "borrowing".
Having stated the above, please find the largest set of 3-digit numbers, such that for any pair(a,b; a>b) of members of the set the operation a-b cannot be done without borrowing.
Based upon a NSH contest problem.
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Submitted by Ady TZIDON
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There are 54 pairs - see tomarkin"s post |
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| NSH? | Steve Herman | 2014-07-02 08:22:35 |
| My solution | tomarken | 2014-07-01 14:23:12 |
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