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Two arithmetic sequences (Posted on 2024-01-16) Difficulty: 3 of 5
NC, NL, NO, NU, TD, TS, TA represents two arithmetic sequences. All the 7 numbers add up to INI.

Determine the letter to digit assignment.

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Solution answer | Comment 1 of 4
Final answer, four solutions:
10,12,14,16,85,87,89  sum= 313
80,82,84,86,15,17,19  sum= 383
56,57,58,59,40,41,42  sum= 353
46,47,48,49,50,51,52  sum= 343
  though this last one is one long sequence so, depending on the definition of "two sequences" it may or may not qualify

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Parity analysis:
N  T  I
e  e  e  I odd  reject
e  e  o  I even reject
e  o  e  I even 
e  o  o  I odd  
o  e  e  I even 
o  e  o  I odd  
o  o  e  I odd  reject
o  o  o  I even reject
So one of {N,T} is odd and one is even

For 7 2-digit numbers to add to a 3-digit number, I < 7.

From the known constraints, a program search finds the possible values of N,T,I as:
[1, 8, 3], [2, 7, 3], [4, 5, 3], [5, 4, 3], [7, 2, 3], [8, 1, 3]

We know from the program that N+T = 9 and I=3; sum(N,T,I) = 12;
sum(CLOUDSA) must be 33, since sum(all digits) = 45.  Also:  N and T are both nonzero.

But wait; there is also the two arithmetic sequences.  I assume there must be a minimum of three numbers to make such a sequence, so the two choices for sequences are:
case 1: (NC,NL,NO,NU) then (TD,TS,TA)  or
case 2: (NC,NL,NO) then (NU,TD,TS,TA)

case 1: 
The only possibilities for C,L,O,U are 
(C,L,O,U)  sum(D,S,A)
(0,2,4,6), D+S+A=21 remaining digits: 1,5,7,8,9
           {N,T} = {1,8}; (D,S,A)= (5,7,9)
              10,12,14,16,85,87,89  sum= 313  SUCCESS
              80,82,84,86,15,17,19  sum= 383  SUCCESS
              
(2,4,6,8), D+S+A=13 remaining digits: 0,1,5,7,9 REJECT
               no way to pick N,T that sum to 9 

(4,5,6,7), D+S+A=11 remaining digits: 0,1,2,8,9 REJECT
            {N,T} = {1,8} but 0,2,9 not arithmetic sequence
            
(5,6,7,8), D+S+A=7 remaining digits: 0,1,2,4,9 REJECT
               no way to pick N,T that sum to 9 
               
(6,7,8,9), D+S+A=3 remaining digits: 0,1,2,4,5
           {N,T} = {4,5}; (D,S,A)= (0,1,2)
              46,47,48,49,50,51,52  sum= 343  SUCCESS
              56,57,58,59,40,41,42  sum= 353  SUCCESS

case 2: 
In this case, I=3, N=4, T=N+1=5.  Immediately 0,1,2 and 6,7,8,9 come to mind, except recall that NU is followed by TD we can get a similar result of : (C,L,O)=(6,7,8)  and (U,D,S,A)=(9,0,1,2)
              46,47,48,49,50,51,52  sum= 343  SUCCESS
In fact, given that 3,4,5 are already taken, there are no other possible values for (U,D,S,A)
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solutions = []
for N in range(1,10):
    for T in range(1,10):
        if N%2 == 0 and T in [2,4,6,8,N]:
            continue
        if N%2 == 1 and T in [1,3,5,7,9,N]:
            continue
        for C in range(10):
            if C in [N,T]:
                continue
            for L in range(10):
                if L in [N,T,C]:
                    continue
                for O in range(10):
                    if O in [N,T,C,L]:
                        continue
                    for U in range(10):
                        if U in [N,T,C,L,O]:
                            continue
                        for D in range(10):
                            if D in [N,T,C,L,O,U]:
                                continue
                            for S in range(10):
                                if S in [N,T,C,L,O,U,D]:
                                    continue
                                for A in range(10):
                                    if A in [N,T,C,L,O,U,D,S]:
                                        continue
                                    for I in range(1,10):
                                        if I in [N,T,C,L,O,U,D,S,A]:
                                            continue
                                        if 40*N + 30*T +C+L+O+U+D+S+A == 101*I + 10*N:
                                            if [N,T,I] not in solutions:
                                                solutions.append([N,T,I])

                                            
print(solutions)

  Posted by Larry on 2024-01-16 12:39:10
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