ZGYZHS (Posted on 2005-11-11)

	Submitted by Larry
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The title is the atbash of the word "ATBASH". If you take the atbash of each number, multiply them, then take the atbash of the product, you get the "incorrect" product as shown. The atbash substitution (which is based on an ancient Hebrew cipher) is to replace A by Z and vice versa, replace B by Y and vice versa, etc. For this numerical atbash problem, 0 is replaced by 9 (and vice versa), 1 is replaced by 8, etc. For each digit "n", the atbash is just 9-n And for 2 three-digit numbers A and B, the atbash of the product as defined above is: 999999-[(999-A)*(999-B)] assuming the product has 6 digits

	Subject	Author	Date
	Puzzle Solution	K Sengupta	2022-07-29 22:51:29
	3 out of 3	Larry	2005-11-12 09:26:00
	Get it too!!!(no spoiler)	pcbouhid	2005-11-11 14:27:17
	Solved (hint)	Mindy Rodriguez	2005-11-11 12:36:46
	Another equation (no spoiler)	Old Original Oskar!	2005-11-11 11:56:09