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Going Arithmetic With Alphametic II (Posted on 2009-11-21) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Substitute each of the capital letters in bold by a different digit from 0 to 9 such that the sum of digits of each of POIRE, OPERA, PORTE, TAPIS, ASTRE, PATRE, LOTUS, LISTE, LOUPE and, OUTRE (in this order) constitutes ten consecutive terms of an arithmetic sequence in ascending order. It is known that none of P, O, T, A and L can be zero.

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Solution computer solution | Comment 1 of 3

DIM used(-100 TO 100)
FOR k = 0 TO 9
FOR a = 1 TO 9
 used(a) = 1
 i = a - k
 IF used(i) = 0 AND i >= 0 AND i < 10 THEN
   used(i) = 1
   t = a + k
 IF used(t) = 0 AND t > 0 AND t < 10 THEN
   used(t) = 1
   FOR p = 1 TO 9
     IF used(p) = 0 THEN
       used(p) = 1
       s = p - k
       IF used(s) = 0 AND s >= 0 AND s < 10 THEN
        used(s) = 1
        FOR r = 0 TO 9
         IF used(r) = 0 THEN
           used(r) = 1
           e = p + a - r
           IF used(e) = 0 AND e >= 0 AND e < 10 THEN
            used(e) = 1
            IF p + e = t + s + 2 * k THEN

            l = t + r - p - k
            IF used(l) = 0 AND l > 0 AND l < 10 THEN
              used(l) = 1
            
              o = 2 * i + s - r - e
              IF used(o) = 0 AND o > 0 AND o < 10 THEN
                used(o) = 1
              
                u = i + e - o - k
                IF used(u) = 0 AND u >= 0 AND u < 10 THEN
                  used(u) = 1
                  GOSUB printIt
                  used(u) = 0
                END IF
              
                used(o) = 0
              END IF

              used(l) = 0
            END IF

            END IF
            used(e) = 0
           END IF
           used(r) = 0
         END IF
        NEXT r
        used(s) = 0
       END IF
       used(p) = 0
     END IF
   NEXT p
   used(t) = 0
 END IF
   used(i) = 0
 END IF
 used(a) = 0
NEXT a
NEXT k

END
printIt:
               PRINT "poire", p; o; i; r; e, p + o + i + r + e
               PRINT "opera", o; p; e; r; a, o + p + e + r + a
               PRINT "porte", p; o; r; t; e, p + o + r + t + e
               PRINT "tapis", t; a; p; i; s, t + a + p + i + s
               PRINT "astre", a; s; t; r; e, a + s + t + r + e
               PRINT "patre", p; a; t; r; e, p + a + t + r + e
               PRINT "lotus", l; o; t; u; s, l + o + t + u + s
               PRINT "liste", l; i; s; t; e, l + i + s + t + e
               PRINT "loupe", l; o; u; p; e, l + o + u + p + e
               PRINT "outre", o; u; t; r; e, o + u + t + r + e
RETURN

finds

word               digits                s.o.d.
poire          2  3  5  0  8               18
opera          3  2  8  0  6               19
porte          2  3  0  7  8               20
tapis          7  6  2  5  1               21
astre          6  1  7  0  8               22
patre          2  6  7  0  8               23
lotus          4  3  7  9  1               24
liste          4  5  1  7  8               25
loupe          4  3  9  2  8               26
outre          3  9  7  0  8               27

  Posted by Charlie on 2009-11-21 15:13:53
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