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Skill or food? (Posted on 2016-12-28)

In one of the 3rd world countries two natives C. and K. encountered a visiting philanthropist who proposed the following offer:
What would you prefer to own: a coconut plantation or a patented technology (a.k.a. knowhow) to produce canned food from all such plantations in your country?
Assume that money-wise both offers are equal.

C. replied - coconut and K. choose the knowhow.
The philantropist then gave both of them two hours to solve the following alphametics :
i: WHATDO+YOUWANT=COCONUTS
ii: WHATDO+YOUWANT=KNOWHOW

You are hired by the natives to help one of them or both(your choice), your dollar fee being 1.6% of the higher summand, 11% of the lower or both, (provided you submit correct solution(s)before the time expires).

Your time limit is 100 minutes - define your strategy (which alphametic to solve first, software or not etc.) and post both the solution and the amount of time spent, ....starting NOW

Watch out - red herring...

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re(3): Crazy for coconuts extra hint

Comment 5 of 5 |

(In reply to re(2): Crazy for coconuts extra hint by Steve Herman)

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can stand for
WHATDO+YOUWANT=COCONUT

s$ = "0123456789": hld$ = s

DoEvents

w$ = Val(Mid(s, 1, 1))

h$ = Val(Mid(s, 2, 1))

a$ = Val(Mid(s, 3, 1))

t$ = Val(Mid(s, 4, 1))

d$ = Val(Mid(s, 5, 1))

o$ = Val(Mid(s, 6, 1))

y$ = Val(Mid(s, 7, 1))

u$ = Val(Mid(s, 8, 1))

n$ = Val(Mid(s, 9, 1))

c$ = Val(Mid(s, 10, 1))

whatdo = 100000 * w + 10000 * h + 1000 * a + 100 * t + 10 * d + o

youwant = 1000000 * y + 100000 * o + 10000 * u + 1000 * w + 100 * a + 10 * n + t

coconut = 1010000 * c + 101000 * o + 100 * n + 10 * u + t

If whatdo + youwant = coconut Then

Text1.Text = Text1.Text & whatdo & Str(youwant) & Str(coconut) & crlf

End If

permute s

Loop Until s = hld

Posted by Charlie on 2016-12-29 10:39:38

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