I assume:
DC doesn't count as a state.
Spaces in state names ("Rhode Island") are left out ("RhodeIsland") with
no effect on the result. RhodeIsland has 11 letters, not 12.
Case is unimportant. Every uppercase "A" matches a lowercase "a" in the
results.
Every letter is reused once. No letter is left out. No letter is used
twice.
I'm just doing some noodling about the problem --
I think a lot of eliminations can be made on some basics I discovered:
The shortest state names have 4 letters; the longest, 13. Therefore,
numbers between 4 and 13 have to be partitioned into pairs, and any pair
with an integer less than 4 can be eliminated right off the bat. After
doing this, I have left only
4+9=13
5+8=13
6+7=13
4: Iowa Ohio Utah
5: Idaho Maine Texas
6: Alaska Hawaii Kansas Nevada Oregon
7: Alabama Florida Georgia Indiana Montana NewYork Vermont Wyoming
(Arizona too, but it has already been eliminated, remember?)
8: Arkansas Colorado Delaware Illinois Kentucky Maryland Michigan
Missouri Nebraska Oklahoma Virginia
9: Louisiana Minnesota NewJersey NewMexico Tennessee Wisconsin
So this narrows the choice somewhat: Does Iowa + Minnesota = Georgia +
Nevada? Well, no, but we can work the remaining possibilities
exhaustively. But that takes care only of the 13-letter possibilities!
Still have to look at 4-12.
Other eliminations can be based on letter occurrences. For instance,
New Jersey is the only state with a "j", and Arizona is the only one
with a "z". So neither one can appear in the result.
Charles Hethcoat
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [Unicon-group] A new puzzle
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > I presume that case should not be significant, but how about spaces?
>
> Let's assume that neither is significant.
>
>
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