Finally got the answer. Same one I had put in earlier but was rejected.
Windows 10 had a big update overnight and the system rebooted. Who knows
what happened.

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:48 AM, 'Mike Day' via Programming <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Only just up - having breakfast!  I evidently solved it,  as the project's
> discussion thread
> is open to me,  but I don't have a record of my method.
>
> Early-ish PE problems were amenable to brute force,  and I expect that's
> how I would have
> done it.
>
> AFAIrecall, later problems involving phi require insight how phi is
> calculated:
>
>    if n = */p^q,         phi(n) = */(p^(q-1)) * p-1
> eg
>     q:360
> 2 2 2 3 3 5
>     p =: 2 3 5
>     q =: 3 2 1
>
>    */(p^q-1) * p-1
> 96
>
>    5 p: 360
> 96
>
> so n/phi(n) is
>    */@:(%<:) p
> 3.75
>
> No time for more - away from wifi for 10 hours or so!
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> On 15/03/2017 03:09, Don Guinn wrote:
>
>> My second approach was brute force like you did. It gave the same number
>> as
>> my first approach. And interestingly it was faster than my first approach.
>> Happens sometimes. The only thing I can think of is that I found the
>> answer
>> but I didn't supply what they wanted. I supplied the first number that had
>> as a permutation of the digits given sorted by (%totient)n . I cheated.
>> Stole totient from J phrases.
>>
>> The only thing I can think of is that they wanted something other than the
>> n that I found.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 8:12 PM, 'Jon Hough' via Programming <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I just tried it and got the right answer. But my approach is essentially
>>> brute force:
>>> I basically stringified  (":) the totient result, sorted it, and compared
>>> to the sorted stringified original number.
>>>
>>> I can be more specific if you like.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jon
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>> On Wed, 3/15/17, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>   Subject: [Jprogramming] Project Euler
>>>   To: "Programming forum" <[email protected]>
>>>   Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2017, 9:37 AM
>>>
>>>   Has anyone out there solved problem
>>>   70? I have worked it two ways which
>>>   give the same answer but it is given as incorrect. I don't
>>>   want to divulge
>>>   what I did as that is against their rules. I must be missing
>>>   something and
>>>   presenting the wrong number for the result. Or is it
>>>   possible that their
>>>   answer is wrong?
>>>
>>>   Glad to discuss it in the forum, but if anyone wants to
>>>   contact me
>>>   privately so we don't break Project Euler rules, contact me
>>>   at
>>>   [email protected]
>>>
>>>   Thanks.
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