Multiply!
We haven’t done any recreational math for a while. As a change of pace, instead of the division problems we’ve done in the past, here’s a multiplication problem. The usual rules for this kind of cryptarithm apply:
- Each letter represents one of the digits 0-9.
- Different letters represent different digits.
- There are no leading zeros, so in the problem below we know right away that A, C, D, and
FG are not zero.
Unlike many examples of these, if you put the letters for 0-9 in order, it won’t spell anything.
A B C
x D E F
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G H I C
G E G B
C G G C
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C D F J I C
Please ROT13 any solutions, so others can keep playing.
I believe you mean A, C, D, and G are nonzero.Report
I did, thanks.Report
And, in order of discovery, digits identified by their first three english letters:
O mre P svi N fvk Q ava R rvt T sbh S fri V gue U gjb W barReport
Right you are.Report
That’s what I got too, gubhtu V svtherq gurz bhg va gur beqre PONTQRSUVWReport
I got the same. Behold the power of Excel (lots of MOD and INT functions)! And one really lucky guess. I really have no method to this madness, just the starting clue around C.Report
Wouldn’t it be funny if it spelled “something” rather than “anything,” ’cause, you know, Mike Schilling.Report
Wrong number of letters 🙂Report
This reminds me, I need to actually learn Prolog someday.Report
Aff.
I got a system with plenty of equations on it. Now its just a time to substitute them all.
Btw, “F” is obvious from the very first moment.Report
How was F obvious to you? The other solvers (and I) didn’t get it until fairly late.Report
X x Y = ZX (To put a finer point on it, a number that ends in X)
X =/= 1
Is where I am currently.Report
Juvpu jbhyq znxr vg svir naq l jbhyq unir gb or bqq?Report
Be K vf rira naq L vf fvk.Report
OH YEAH, duh.Report
Still, it is trivial. It can only be one of two different numbers.
Btw. You should spell a number when you are pointing out it in a rot 13 text.Report
Or, i can be completely wrong. Wouldn’t be the first time.
Gur bayl jnl n zhygvcyvpngvba bs n ahzore pna erfhyg bs n ynfg qvtvg bs vgfrys ner gurfr:
1 – gur zhygvcyvpngbe vf bar
2 – gur zhygvcyvpngbe vf fvk
3 – Bar bs gubfr ahzoref vf svir naq gur bgure vf bqq.
Jr pna rkpyhqr 1 sebz gur trg tb nf gur erfhyg jbhyq or nop. Gung yrnirf hf jvgu gur ynfg gjb cbffvovyvgvrf. Fb S vf rvgure Fvk, Svir (fbzrguvat ryfr NAQ P vf svir)
Fb creuncf zl vavgvny fgngrzrag jnf vapbeerpg.Report
@wyrmnax , V’z thrffvat lbh unir vg jebat, naq lbhe svkngrq ba gur cbffvovyvgl bs S orvat 6. Vg vfa’g.Report
God love you all, but the phrase ‘recreational math’ lands on my brain in roughly the same way as ‘salubrious torture’. It just doesn’t (wait for it) add up.Report
Kind of like ‘rap music’.Report
Ol wbyyl uvtuynaqf va Trbetvn prqne nfu sybngf rireljurer qnexReport
lrc. Naq V nccebir bs lbhe rapbqvat zrgubq.Report
N rfgn frvf, O abguvat, P vf n unaqshyy, Q ahra, R fvqrjnlf vasvavgl, S vf yhpxl, T n fdhner, U vf pbzcnal, V vf n pebjq, naq W havgl.
Vg jnf zhpu rnfvre bapr V ernyvmrq gung P unq gb or svir naq O mreb. Nsgre gung V fnj gung R jnf rira, S naq Q bqq, naq gung Q jnf bar zber guna R. Gura fnj N k Q ybbxrq yvxr vg unq gb or svsgl fbzrguvat juvpu znqr N naq Q rvgure fvk naq 9 be 8 naq 7. Nyy sryy vagb cynpr sebz gurer.
Thanks for the puzzle, I lurves puzzles.Report
Got it. Took about a half-hour. C and B were obvious from inspection. But then I had to start writing equations.Report