On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "JT" == John Tobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> JT> Somebody get me a life, PLEASEEEE!
>
> sure, but you couldn't afford the price. :)
>
>
> JT> $ perl -le'$_=1;for$n(2..9){s/\S+/$&$n $&+$n $&*$n/g}2002-eval||print for
>split'
> JT> 1*23+45*6*7+89
> JT> 1*2+34*56+7+89
>
> very neat. someone should mail that into NPR and see what they think. :)
Their URL is http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
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The Perl program above proves that the answer is *not* unique, as
indicated at the npr.org page.
Is it cheating to brute force the puzzle with a computer? :)
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