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Tea Team Quickie (Posted on 2023-03-28) Difficulty: 2 of 5
Solve this alphametic:
√(TEA)+ TO = √(TEAM)
where each of the letters represent a digit from 1 to 9 inclusively.

Extra Challenge: How fast can you solve it using only p&p?

No Solution Yet Submitted by K Sengupta    
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The program as originally written, requiring an exact equality, did not find any result. I changed it to ask only for an approximate answer, starting within 1 of equality.  That degree of approximation was too wide, giving many results. I had to narrow it down to within 0.0028 to get down to one solution.

Even trying negative square roots did not produce an exact answer.

sqrt(492) + 48 ~= 70.18
sqrt(4925) ~= 70.18

but the respective values are more precisely approximately 70.1810730128188 and 70.178344238091.

digsets=digs(combinator(9,5,'p'));
for i=1:length(digsets)
  digs=digsets(i,:);
  tea='teatoteam';
  for j=1:5
    tea=replace(tea,lets(j),digs(j));
  end
  team0=str2double(tea(6:9));
  to=str2double(tea(4:5));
  tea0=str2double(tea(1:3));
  for tea=[tea0 -tea0]
    for team=[team0 -team0]
      if  abs(sqrt(tea)+to-sqrt(team))<.0028
        disp([tea   to   team])
        disp([sqrt(tea)+to  sqrt(team)])
      end
    end
  end
end

It finds

         TEA          TO        TEAM
         492          48        4925
         
          70.1810730128188           70.178344238091
          
showing values of LHS and RHS on the line below those of TEA, TO and TEAM.          

  Posted by Charlie on 2023-03-28 09:28:52
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